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At the end of each regular season, the Atlantic Sun Conference names major award winners in baseball. Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, and Freshman of the Year. The Coach of the Year award, which dates to 1979, is the oldest. The others– Player (1982), Freshman (2001), and Pitcher (2004)– were added later. Through the 2001 season, the awards were known as the major awards of the Trans America Athletic Conference, the Atlantic Sun's former name. Through the end of the 2014 season, Stetson has won 24 major awards, the most of any school in the conference. Mercer and Florida Gulf Coast are tied for the second-highest total with 10.〔 On six occasions, a team has won swept the major awards given out in a season: Mercer in 1983, Georgia Southern in 1986 and 1987, Stetson in 1989, Florida International in 1995, and Florida Atlantic in 1999. All six instances came before 2001, when only the Coach and Player of the Year awards existed. Two individuals, both from Mercer, have won more than one of the awards. Craig Gibson was named Player of the Year in 1985 and Coach of the Year in 2013; Chesny Young was named Freshman of the Year in 2012 and Player of the Year in 2013. ==Coach of the Year== The conference's Coach of the Year award is presented annually to the conference's most outstanding baseball coach, as chosen by a vote of the A-Sun's coaches taken at the end of the regular season. From 1979–1981 and 1987–1992, the award was given automatically to the coach of the TAAC's tournament champion, rather than chosen by the league's coaches. The award was first presented in 1979. From 1979–2001, it was known as the Trans America Athletic Conference Coach of the Year award, until the conference switched to its current name for the 2002 season. In 2014, Florida Gulf Coast's Dave Tollett received the award for the fourth time. The Eagles went 39-22 (19-8 A-Sun) to win the league's regular season title for the fourth time. The award was Tollett's first since he won three straight from 2008–2010. With the exception of 2012, the award has been given to the coach of the league's regular season champion in each season since 2004. In 2012, USC Upstate's Matt Fincher was given the award after his team, picked to finish last, finished second in the A-Sun. Stetson's Pete Dunn, who has coached in the conference since 1986, has won the award six times, the most of any coach. He is one of three coaches to win the award in thee straight years (1988–1990), along with Georgia Southern's Jack Stallings (1985–1987) and Florida Gulf Coast's Dave Tollett (2008–2010). Mercer is the only school to have multiple coaches win the award. Barry Myers won it in 1979, 1981, 1983, and 1984, and Craig Gibson won it in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atlantic Sun Conference baseball awards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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