LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), Greg Burnett of Texas Lutheran University was named SCAC Coach-of-the-Year

Greg Burnett, in his 18th season with the Texas Lutheran program and ninth as the team's head coach, is the third winningest baseball coach in school history (242-139 heading into this weekend's SCAC tournament) and his .635 winning percentage is the second-highest in school history (trailing only current Athletics Director and former head coach Bill Miller). Burnett has led the Bulldogs to postseason appearances in each of the last seven seasons, including a trip to the SCAC championship final in TLU's inaugural season in the conference in 2014. This year's squad won a share of the regular season conference title with a 14-4 league mark and earned the top seed and hosting privileges for the 2016 SCAC Baseball Tournament. In TLU's three seasons in the SCAC, Burnett has led his squad to a cumulative 38-16 league mark (.704) – the second-best mark of any team in the league over that stretch. The COTY honor is the first for Burnett since his Bulldogs joined the SCAC prior to the 2014 season but he and his staff were recognized as West Division Coaching Staff of the Year in 2009 as members of the American Southwest Conference.

Burnett received four votes from his peers in earning SCAC Coach-of-the-Year honors, narrowly outnumbering Trinity's Tim Scannell who received the remaining three votes.