{"id":21362,"date":"2023-04-20T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/?p=21362"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T11:48:06","slug":"howlett-voted-w-va-college-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovathletics.com\/home\/howlett-voted-w-va-college-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Howlett Voted W.Va. 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To be nominated and then voted the winner is very humbling and I&#8217;m very appreciative of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Named for the longtime state sports writer Mickey Furfari, a Morgantown native who spent 70 years covering West Virginia University athletics, the honor was started in 1942 by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howlett finished ahead of Glenville State women&#8217;s basketball coach Kim Stephens, last year&#8217;s winner; Marshall University men&#8217;s basketball coach Dan D&#8217;Antoni; and Shepherd football coach Ernie McCook in the voting by members of the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howlett will be recognized at the nation&#8217;s oldest statewide sports fete, the 76th annual Victory Awards Dinner, on May 7 at the Embassy Suites in Charleston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Just the list of those individual coaches and past winners is impressive,&#8221; Howlett noted. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a fan of some of those coaches, so be to be added to that list is an honor and a privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howlett, a former standout guard for the Hilltoppers, guided the Black-and-Gold to the NCAA Division II national championship game this past season, his sixth as head coach at his alma mater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The high-scoring Hilltoppers fell to unbeaten Nova Southeastern in the national title tilt in Evansville, Ind., after winning the Mountain East Conference regular season and tournament titles along with the Atlantic Region crown. Nova Southeastern was coached by former West Liberty coach Jim Crutchfield, who won the Furfari Award from 2011-14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I never thought the season would go as well as it did. I remember sitting in the locker room after we lost a regular season game to Wheeling University at their place, and I did not feel good about our team,&#8221; Howlett said. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t lose again until the national championship game. I don&#8217;t know how many wins that was in a row, but we reeled off quite a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I thought the guys really bought into each other and believed in themselves. They played some high-level basketball and we were one win away from being national champions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Howlett, a native of Marietta, Ohio, is the fifth West Liberty coach to receive the Furfari Award since its inception. 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