Hudson and Swierczek Honored by the Wyoming Coaches Association

Two long-tenured and well-respected coaches in Laramie were honored by the Wyoming Coaches Association on Monday.

Tom Hudson and Clint Swierczek were recipients of ‘Coach of the Year’ Awards and a Service Award from the WCA in a small ceremony at Laramie High School.

WCA Past President Mike Lashley is on a “Banquet Tour” to present awards to coaches around the state. His second stop in a four-day tour around the state was Laramie. The tour is being done in place of the WCA Coaches' Clinic and Hall of Fame Banquet that typically takes place in mid-July in Casper but was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lashley presented Laramie head swimming and diving coach Tom Hudson with two ‘Coach of the Year’ Awards for the 2019-20 academic school year, as both the Laramie girls and boys won the Class 4A State Swimming and Diving Championships.

Hudson was very appreciative to have his two plaques hand-delivered.

“It’s really nice that Mike (Lashley) was able to come around and do this. You know, he’s making a tour all around the state of Wyoming and delivering in-person, and I think that’s a great gesture from Mike Lashley and the Wyoming Coaches Association.”

Hudson knows that if you receive these, it means you’ve had success in the past school year.

“It’s always nice to get a ‘Coach of the Year’ Award. It speaks to the other coaches in the program and the quality that I have helping me, and then the great kids we have here at Laramie High School.”

Lashley then presented a ‘40-Year Service Award’ to Swierczek, who has coach multiple sports through the years at Laramie Junior High/Laramie Middle School.

Swierczek said I’m just so honored.

“To have that (Service Award) and be recognized by the (Wyoming) Coaches Association. It’s been a great career and I can’t say enough about the school district supporting me, and my family supporting me, and like I said, just a great honor.”

Swierczek added that he’s proud to have served as a coach for so long.

“Mike Lashley from the (Wyoming) Coaches Association, he called me a couple of weeks ago and told me I was going to get that (Service Award), and I thought I was kind of close to having this amount of years, so yeah, great award.”

If you’ve had a son or daughter come through the Albany County School District No. 1 in Laramie, there’s a pretty good chance they’ve been taught or coached by one of these two gentlemen, and perhaps both.

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