Kendrick-Holmes Among 28 Finalists For NFL Shula Award
THROGGS NECK, N.Y. (Jan. 19, 2011) – As reported in December, Maritime football sixth-year head coach Clayton Kendrick-Holmes has been nominated by the New York Jets for the inaugural Don Shula NFL Coach of the Year Award. The National Football League released the full list of finalists for the award on Tuesday. The winner will be announced during the week preceding Super Bowl XLV in early February.
This new award was created to honor exemplary football coaches at all levels of the sport that display the integrity, achievement and leadership demonstrated by the winningest coach in NFL history, Don Shula. The coaches were nominated by NFL teams and by USA Football, the sport's national governing body on youth and amateur levels. Nominees are active football coaches at NFL, college, high school and youth levels. They were chosen for their character and integrity, inspirational leadership, commitment to the community, and on-field success.
The Don Shula NFL Coach of the Year Award selection panel is comprised of Coach Shula; NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell; former Indianapolis Colts Coach and current NBC analyst Tony Dungy; Former Raiders Coach and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame John Madden; General Raymond Odierno, Commander, United States Joint Forces Command; Sal Palmisano, Chairman, CEO and President of IBM; Former Secretary of State, Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Condoleezza Rice; and Aaron Thomas, Athletic Director at Aplington-Parkersburg High School and son of the school's late football coach Ed Thomas.
