Pembina Trails’ Stacy Hawash named MHSAA Coach of the Year

The Manitoba High School Athletic Association has named Stacy Hawash as 2025 Grey Cup Legacy Female High School Coach of the Year. Hawash is a teacher at Pembina Trails’ Institut collégial Vincent Massey Collegiate and was nominated for the award by Marshall Jones and Deondra Twerdun-Peters.

“Stacy is a work horse. The amount of selfless giving that she does daily is truly outstanding, and she is a massive asset to the school,” says Deondra Twerdun-Peters, Physical Health and Education Consultant at Pembina Trails. “She puts kids first and foremost every daily and creates an environment of inclusion, accountability and competition that allows students to figure out who they are and how they will be successful.”

 Hawash has had an incredible amount of success coaching basketball and team handball. Her basketball teams are consistently ranked in the top three AAAA girls teams in the province. Multiple alumni come back to coach every year and the program continues to produce some of the best female basketball players in Manitoba.

In her time with Vincent Massey, Hawash coached Varsity Girls Basketball from 2003 to 2025, Girls Team Handball from 2003 to 2025, and JV Girls volleyball in 2005.

In that time, her teams captured four MHSAA AAAA Varsity Girls Provincial Basketball Championships, most recently earning that title this past March. She has recorded three girls Team Handball Provincial Championships, produced multiple University bound student athletes, and has had three number one ranked female basketball student athletes in the past five school years.

 Hawash has also served as an MHSAA Board Member, Winnipeg Tier 1 Basketball League Convenor Basketball Manitoba Board Member, MABO Board Member and referee evaluator, U Sports Basketball Official, Basketball Manitoba provincial team program evaluator, provincial team coach, and an NCCP Level 1 course conductor.

Congratulations Stacy Hawash!