title: Mike Berticelli Award
text: # Mike Berticelli Award
  
  The Mike Berticelli Excellence in Coaching Education Award or the Mike Berticelli Award is a national recognition given by United Soccer Coaches to present to an individual in the USC Academy staff who was provided "positive contributions to the game of soccer and excellence in coaching education". The award is named in Mike Berticelli who was the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's soccer program and died in 2000 while serving as the United Soccer Coaches' (then National Soccer Coaches Association of America) Vice President of Education.
  
  The award was first given following the 2000 NCAA men's and women's soccer season to Jim Lennox.
  
  ## Past Award Winners
  
  | Season | Winner | Affiliation |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2022 | Felicity Day | United Soccer Coaches Instructor |
  | 2021 | Deborah Raber | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts |
  | 2020 | Neil Hull | |
  | 2019 | Roy Dunshee | |
  | 2018 | Jason Neumann | Vestavia Hills Soccer Club |
  | 2017 | Cyndi Goodwin | |
  | 2016 | Bill Steffen | Ohio State Buckeyes women's soccer |
  | 2015 | Paul Marco | Binghamton Bearcats men's soccer |
  | 2014 | Paul Payne | Bloomsburg Huskies men's soccer |
  | 2013 | Kim Sutton | Chico State Wildcats women's soccer |
  | 2012 | Laura Kerrigan | NC State Wolfpack women's soccer |
  | 2011 | Barry Gorman | Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer |
  | 2010 | Nancy Feldman | Boston University Terriers women's soccer |
  | 2009 | Dave Saward | Middlebury Panthers men's soccer |
  | 2008 | Peter Broadley | FC Carolina Alliance |
  | 2007 | Schellas Hyndman | SMU Mustangs men's soccer |
  | 2006 | Jeff Vennell | Cranbrook Cranes boys' soccer |
  | 2005 | Doug Williamson | Augusta Prep Cavaliers |
  | 2004 | Peter Gooding | Amherst Mammoths men's soccer |
  | 2003 | George Perry | Monmouth Hawks men's soccer |
  | 2002 | Tony Waiters | NSCAA Goalkeeping Institute |
  | 2001 | Anson Dorrance | North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer |
  | 2000 | Jim Lennox | Hartwick Hawks women's soccer |
  