| The award recognizes excellence in international hockey competition |
| COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Stan Wong (Boca Raton, Fla.) has been named the recipient of the 2020 Bob Johnson Award, presented by Nike, USA Hockey announced.The award, named for legendary coach Bob Johnson, recognizes excellence in international hockey competition. Wong has been a cornerstone of USA Hockey’s international program as an athletic trainer for nearly 20 years, serving a total of 47 total teams over that span.Most recently, Wong served on the staff of the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ostrava and Trinec, Czech Republic, marking his 18th straight appearance as the team’s athletic trainer. Wong has also served as an athletic trainer for the last four U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Teams (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018); the most recent 13 IIHF Men’s World Championships; and 10 Deutschland Cup squads (2002-05, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017). He was also the trainer for Team USA at the 2012 Youth Olympic Winter Games and at the 2017 Winter World University Games.Along with his nine medals as a trainer with the U.S. National Junior Team, including four gold (2004, 2010, 2013, 2017), one silver (2019) and four bronze (2007, 2011, 2016, 2018), Wong has also been part of staffs that have helped Team USA to an Olympic silver medal (2010) and three Men’s World Championship bronze medals (2013, 2015, 2018). For his extraordinary contributions to athletic training in the hockey community, Wong was inducted into the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society and Society of Professional Hockey Equipment Managers Hall of Fame in 2015. |
