February 26, 2011
Cornell's Derraugh Named ECAC Women's Coach of the Year
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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Doug Derraugh, who has guided the Cornell women's hockey team to a number two national ranking, its second straight ECAC Hockey and Ivy League championship, and the top seed in the ECAC Hockey tournament, has been voted by his peers as the 2011 ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year, the league office announced on Friday.
Derraugh led his Big Red squad to a 20-1-1 record in the league this season, winning its first 16 league games and clinching the regular-season championship on Feb. 5 with a win at St. Lawrence. The Big Red has been ranked either first or second throughout the entire season, with the number one ranking a first for the Cornell women's hockey program.
Last season, Derraugh was a finalist for the award, and ultimately was named the AHCA Division I Coach of the Year after leading the Big Red to the national championship game, where Cornell fell in triple overtime to Minnesota-Duluth.
Cornell, which leads the league in scoring offense, scoring defense, power-play efficiency and penalty-killing percentage, opens the 2011 postseason on Friday night, taking on Rensselaer in game one of the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals at Lynah Rink.
