University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's hockey bench boss Vicky Sunohara earned 2019-20 OUA female coach of the year honours across all sports as announced on Wednesday morning.
 
"It is quite an honour because there are so many amazing coaches across the OUA," said Sunohara. "I know because I coach against some of them. I'm super excited to be able to share this with my assistant coaches, team and entire Varsity Blues staff at the University of Toronto. I work with such an amazing group and I am so fortunate for that."
 
In her ninth season as Varsity Blues head coach, Sunohara earned both OUA and U SPORTS coach of the year honours. She guided Toronto to their first OUA McCaw Cup championship title since 2002-03 this season. She is only the second U of T coach to earn the national honour after Karen Hughes in 2000-01.
 
The two-time Olympic gold medalist helped the Blues to an OUA-best 17-4-1-2 record, which was their best record under her tenure.
 
U of T boasted the top-ranked powerplay (20.2%), while ranking third in penalty killing (91.1%).
 
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