From now until Jan. 1, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester.  Here are the fall nominees for Coach of the Year. Monday, the nominees for Team of the Year will be released. 

The third annual Frosty Awards will take place in April and honor athletic excellence in Carson-Newman's athletic department. 

Dan Ahiers: The second-year coach of the volleyball program guided the Eagles to their first-ever Southeast Region championship while winning the second-most matches in program history finishing with a 29-8 record. Carson-Newman became the first team since 2005 to win the most games in the South Atlantic Conference, Wingate had the previous string. It was just the second time in program history the Eagles finished the season with the most wins in the SAC with the other time coming in 2002. The Eagles finished the year receiving votes in the AVCA Coaches' poll for the first time in school history. Ahiers is the fourth coach in SAC history with 50 or more wins in the first two seasons of coaching and the fastest coach in C-N history to 50 victories doing so in 62 matches. Presbyetrian's Beth Couture went 58-16 in 1989-90, Ed Allen went 62-13 in 2003-04 and Gardner Webb's Angell Benson went 58-18 in 1996-97.

Richard Moodie: Women's soccer coach Richard Moodie was named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Southeast Region Coach of the Year and named the South Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year after guiding the Eagles to their first regular season title since 2010 and their first SAC Tournament since 2009. C-N also made its first appearance in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship since 2009. The regular season championship was the program's seventh and its SAC Championship was number five. He guided Carson-Newman to the best turnaround in SAC history after the Eagles went from 3-14 in 2014. The 19 wins are the second-most in school history and just one off the 20 wins that the 2009 team achieved. Carson-Newman ended the season ranked 13^th in the nation; when the Eagles first became ranked on 20^th, it was the first ranking since the 2010 preseason poll. Carson-Newman rallied off a school record 12 wins that stretched from a win against Lincoln Memorial on Oct. 7^th to a win against Armstrong State in the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship second round on Nov. 15^th.

Ken Sparks: In his 36^th year at the helm of the Carson-Newman football program, Ken Sparks pulled a rabbit out of his hat to turn a 3-2 team into a playoff squad.  The Eagles closed the year with six straight wins to make the playoffs for the 25^th time under Sparks before falling to Valdosta State in the opening round in an instant classic 61-59.  Along the way running back Damian Baker (Columbus, Miss.) was named a Harlon Hill trophy finalist – C-N's fourth all-time and Derek Evans (Alcoa, Tenn.) won the Rimington Award as the nation's best center. Sparks closed the year with 334 career wins, passing Larry Kehres for fifth on the all-time wins list against North Greenville.  He also won his 200^th career South Atlantic Conference game, one of just four coaches nationwide with more than 200 wins in one conference.