REGINA, Sask. - Laurier's manager of football operations and head coach Michael Faulds was named the 2025 Frank Tindall Trophy winner as the U SPORTS Coach of the Year.  

Faulds was awarded his third Frank Tindall Trophy, his second in consecutive years after receiving his first honour in 2016. He became the first to win the national award in back-to-back years since Western's head coach Greg Marshall in 2018 and 2019.  

Faulds is the fourth Laurier coach to receive the award, joining David "Tuffy" Knight (1972, 1979), Rich Newbrough (1991), Rick Zmich (1995), and Gary Jeffries (2003).  

He made a new entry into the record books, earning the distinction of being the first Laurier coach to win three times, and on the grand scale of things, he is the first to win three titles with the same program since the Frank Tindall Trophy was handed out in 1969. 

Knight won twice with Laurier and once with Waterloo (1989), and Marshall won once with McMaster (2000) and twice with Western.

"I'm incredibly proud to once again accept the Coach of the Year award on behalf of our entire staff," Faulds said.  

"As I always say, the best thing I've done is surround myself with great coaches and even better people. There are too many to name individually, but Coach VanMoerkerke, Coach Galloway, Coach Scotto, Coach Daly, and Coach Robichaud to name a few, make coming to work every day so enjoyable. We also have an incredible army of support staff and the best student-athletes that we all have the pleasure of coaching." 

Under Faulds, the Golden Hawks secured their second straight undefeated season, and in the process reached 61 career regular season coaching wins and 71 overall in his 11th season and 12th at Laurier.  

He passed Jeffries for second all-time in Laurier football coaching history in regular season and career wins, and only trails Knight, who recorded 85 and 99, respectively.  

The Golden Hawks were first in the nation in total offense (4,022), yards per game (509.4), passing touchdowns (28), while second in total points scored (355), and allowed the eighth-fewest points (158) and points per game (19.8).