The NCA sponsors several annual awards to recognize those coaches and support personnel that contribute to the success of athletic programs in schools in the state of Nebraska. Many of these awards require a nomination from someone other than the recipients themselves. The Assistant/Junior High Coach-of-the-Year and the Media Award nominees must come through the nomination process. Each of the recipients are recognized at the annual Awards and Recognition Banquet (more info below), are the association’s guests, and receive an engraved plaque symbolic of the award.
2026 NCA Banquet Ticket Order Form – Ticket orders & payments due by July 8th
2025-2026 NCA – Currency Team Academic Excellence Awards
Fall 2025
- Cheerleading (3 pages)
- Cross Country – Boys (2 pages)
- Cross Country – Girls (3 pages)
- Dance (2 pages)
- Football (2 pages)
- Golf – Girls
- Softball (2 pages)
- Tennis – Boys
- Unified Bowling
- Volleyball (3 pages)
Winter 2025-2026
- Basketball – Boys (3 pages)
- Basketball – Girls (4 pages)
- Bowling – Boys
- Bowling – Girls
- Swimming & Diving – Boys
- Swimming & Diving – Girls
- Wrestling – Boys (2 pages)
- Wrestling – Girls
Spring 2026
- Baseball
- Golf – Boys
- Soccer – Boys
- Soccer – Girls
- Tennis – Girls
- Track & Field – Boys
- Track & Field – Girls
Team Academic Excellence Awards History by Year
Scholarship Awards
Overall Coaching Achievement or Longevity Awards (Deadline June 1)
- NCA – Jerry Stine Family Milestone Awards (Level I – Bronze, Level II – Silver, Level III – Gold, and Level IV) Presented by Baden Sports
- NCA – Service Awards (25, 35, 40, 45, 50 Year Awards) – All Years
- 2025 Service Award Recipients – Presented by Currency
- Self Nomination for NCA Members – Service Award (Due June 1 Annually)
Career Sport Specific Awards (NCA Committee Nominations Only) & Career Junior High/Assistant Coach Award (Open Nominations – Deadline April 1 Annually)
- NCA Binnie & Dutch Track & Field Award
- NCA Ed Johnson Boys Basketball Award (formerly Mike Heck Award)
- NCA Ken Cook Girls Basketball Award
- NCA Guy Mytty Wrestling Award
- NCA Phyllis Rice Honnor Volleyball Award
- NCA Skip Palrang Football Award
- NCA Swede Hawkins & Del Schoenfish Golf Award
- NCA George O’Boyle Cross Country Award
- Jim Farrand Award (formerly Jr. High Assistant Coach of the Year Award)
Special NCA Awards (Deadline April 10)
- Friends of High School Sports Award
- NCA Media Person of the Year Award – Nomination Form – Due April 1 Annually
- Doyle Denney Heart of a Coach Award
Annual Coaching Achievement Awards
- NCA – Hudl Coaches of the Year
- NCA – Varsity Cheer & Dance Coaches of the Year
- NCA – Fundraising University State Champion Coach Awards
National Coaching Honors
- Broyles Award (High School Football Assistant Coach Career Award)
- Broyles Award – Nebraska State Nomination Process/Information – Due March 1st Annually)
- NHSACA National Coach of the Year & Hall of Fame Honorees