The American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) annually selects the NCAA Division-I Coach of the Year and presents him with the Penrose Award. The trophy is named in memory of Spencer T. Penrose, the man whose fortune in gold and copper built the famous Broadmoor Hotel and athletic complex in Colorado Springs, the site of the first 10 NCAA hockey championships.

For leading the Boston College Eagles to a pair of Hockey East titles and into the 2024 Frozen Four, Greg Brown was chosen the winner of the 2024 Spencer Penrose Award as Division I Men’s Ice Hockey CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year by his peers. The honor is the first for Brown and the fourth for Boston College in the 74-year history of the award. John “Snooks” Kelley won it twice (1959 and 1972) and Len Ceglarski once (1985). Jerry York, college hockey’s winningest coach, never won this award at BC but captured it in 1977 while at Clarkson.