The Kent State Golden Flashes took home multiple Mid-American Conference awards, highlighted by Sincere Carry being named Player of the Year, Rob Senderoff being named Coach of the Year and Justyn Hamilton being named Sixth Man of the Year, the conference announced Wednesday.
Coach Senderoff earns his first Coach of the Year award in his 11th season as the Flashes’ head coach. It’s the first time a Kent State coach has taken home the award since Geno Ford in 2011. Senderoff has crossed off multiple milestones this season, including his 200th career win, his 100th career MAC victory and climbed the MAC coaching ranks to seventh place in all-time wins. He also set a program record with his seventh 20-win season.
“First off, it really should be staff of the year,” said Senderoff. The assistants (Aaron Fuss, Julian Sullinger, Randal Holt, Jon Fleming), graduate assistants (Avery Van Reeth & Kevin Zabo), support staff (Brice Cox, Brent Leiby, Kerrie James-Hunter) deserve credit for this award. Second, it’s a team award. Our team deserves a lot of credit for battling throughout the course of the year and finishing off the regular season in incredible fashion. Lastly, I want to thank my wife, Lauren, who handles so much of the things I can’t handle because I’m working with our team. She deserves credit for this along with my two kids.”
