SUWANEE, Ga. - In exclusive voting by the head
coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), Jim
Owen and Vince Lazar were named men’s and women’s golf
Coaches-of-the-Year.
Jim Owen of Oglethorpe University was honored as men's
Coach-of-the-Year for the 11th time in 13 years. The Petrels won
their league-high ninth SCAC men's golf title at this year's
conference tournament at Horseshoe Bay, Texas, and went on to 2011
NCAA Division III Championships where the Petrels finished in the
top 13 nationally for the 11th straight year. With his 11 men's
golf COTY awards, Owen is a part of an exclusive list of SCAC
coaches (Paul McGinlay, Trinity - men's soccer and Steve Mohr,
Trinity - football) who have won 10 or more COTY honors in the same
sport.
Like Owen, Vince Lazar of DePauw University guided
his squad to a conference title and was rewarded with his seventh
SCAC women’s Coach-of-the-Year honor. The conference title
was DePauw's seventh in 13 years of SCAC competition. DePauw also
captured the conference's automatic qualification into the NCAA
Division III Championships, the eighth straight year the Tigers
have competed in the tournament and the seventh time they have
finished in the top 10 nationally. Lazar was also named the 1999
SCAC Co-Coach-of-the-Year in men’s golf.