The 2011-2012 USA Bandy Player of the Year award was also announced on Saturday, and Mike Hosfield of Mississippi Mojo was the unanimous recipient of the award, given to the USA Bandy League's Most Valuable Player. Hosfield not only Managed the Mississippi Mojo Bandy Club this season, but he was a standout player on the USA National Bandy Team that competed at this years World Championships in Almaty Kazakhstan. In an unprecedented feat during league play, he topped off an already stellar season by scoring an amazing twelve goals for Mojo in a late season double header. Hosfield was unable to attend the award ceremony, as he was acting as an Ambassador of the sport on a Bandy awareness tour of Southern California.