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CHRIS BROOKS (photo: UWSP Athletics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>The third time really is the charm.Winning the Division III national championship has garnered Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Chris Brooks the USCHO.com 2015-16 Men’s D-III Coach of the Year.Brooks, who just completed his fifth season behind the Pointers bench, led the team to a WIAC playoff title and then beat Adrian, Geneseo and St. Norbert to end the school’s 23-year national title drought.He was named WIAC Coach of the Year this season as well.The national championship avenged a loss in the title game to St. Norbert in 2014. UWSP posted runner-up finishes in 2014 and 2015 with Brooks at the helm.In five years with UWSP, Brooks has guided the team to a 98-40-10 record, including 24-5-2 in 2015-16.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third time really is the charm.Winning the Division III national championship has garnered Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Chris Brooks the USCHO.com 2015-16 Men’s D-III Coach of the Year.Brooks, who just completed his fifth season behind the Pointers bench, led the team to a WIAC playoff title and then beat Adrian, Geneseo and St. Norbert to end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":71064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[808],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBrooks leads Wisconsin-Stevens Point to D-III men's title, named USCHO.com Coach of the Year - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The third time really is the charm.Winning the Division III national championship has garnered Wisconsin-Stevens Point's Chris Brooks the USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71061\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brooks leads Wisconsin-Stevens Point to D-III men's title, named USCHO.com Coach of the Year - 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