The CCHA Scholar-Athlete of the Year was an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association regular season to the best scholar in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.[1] Faculty representatives select the player, who must have at least a 3.25 GPA through the end of the fall semester, who will be named as the scholar-athlete for each team in the CCHA with each nominee being eligible for the conference award.[2]
The 'Scholar-Athlete of the Year' was first awarded in 2005 and every year thereafter until 2013, when the original CCHA was dissolved as a consequence of the Big Ten Conference forming its men's ice hockeyconference.[3]
The CCHA was revived in 2021–22 by seven schools that had left the men's Western Collegiate Hockey Association, with an eighth school joining before play started. The revived league resumed the original league's practice of selecting all-academic teams, but did not revive the individual Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
Michael Eickman is the only player to win the award more than once.
