Yellowjacket Soccer Assistant Receives AFLAC Award (May 14, 2003)

BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings women’s soccer assistant coach Jennifer Lawler has been selected as one of the 500 high school and college coaches to receive an AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year Award.  The winners, men and women involved in virtually every major team sport, hail from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Lawler was a first-year assistant with the Yellowjacket women’s soccer program and also assisted in the athletics marketing and development office.  While working for Yellowjacket Athletics, Lawler was also finishing her master’s degree from East Stroudsburg University. 

The AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year Awards were selected based on nominations made by head coaches, athletic administrators, past and current student athletes, fans, and board members.  Each winner and each respective school will receive a plaque from AFLAC.  Billings AFLAC representative Daran Wyckoff is scheduled to present Lawler with her plaque at the Lady Jackets’ September 6 home game. 

“AFLAC is pleased to sponsor the AFLCAC National Assistant Coach of the Year program,” said Joe Kuechenmeister, AFLAC senior vice president.  “Assistant coaches are the unsung heroes of American sport.  So many of us were positively affected by our participation in sports that we wanted to pay tribute to these hard-working, under-recognized coaches who do so much to improve the young people they work with.  As a result, they make a major impact in the communities they serve as well.”