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AP names Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson ACC Coach of the Year

Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson reacts during the first half of an NCAA college football game against North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson has been named the 2021 Associated Press ACC Coach of the Year. 

The AP recognition comes on the heels of Clawson being named the ACC Football Coach of the Year last week. 

Wake Forest is celebrating a 10-3 record this season, marking the second time in team history that it has won double-digit games.

Clawson was named Deacon head coach in 2013, vowing to build the top program in North Carolina and compete for championships. He has since become one of just five head coaches to have a winning record with the team.

In addition, five players have earned AP All-ACC honors for this season, the second-most in the Clawson era.

Wake Forest will next head to Jacksonville to battle Texas A&M in the Gator Bowl on December 31.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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