after the 2009–10 season, ice bears' star and sphl all-time leading scorer kevin swider retired. on july 12, 2010, swider was named ice bears' director of hockey operations and youth hockey school director. swider won every scoring title from 2004 to 2010, all six years of the sphl's existence to that point. swider came out of retirement in the summer of 2011. the sphl renamed the league leader in scoring trophy after swider in 2015. in 2017, swider was inducted into the greater knoxville sports hall of fame for his repeated scoring titles in the sphl.