KERRVILLE, Texas – After posting a perfect 23-0 conference season, 16th-ranked Texas Lutheran University was rewarded with three of the league's four major awards in exclusive 2015 all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) voting by the league's head coaches. Complete Release

The Bulldogs' Jennifer Gallagher was selected as the conference Offensive Player-of-the-Year and, for the second consecutive season, teammate Taylor Grissom was selected the conference's Pitcher-of-the-Year. TLU head coach Wade Wilson was named the SCAC Coach-of-the-Year – also for the second consecutive year.

In addition, Texas Lutheran tied its own conference record with eight First Team All-SCAC selections – equaling the eight First Team selections the Bulldogs were awarded last aseason. Trinity University also had eight First Team selections in 2000 and 2001.

In the only major award category not won by Texas Lutheran, Anna Dunn of Centenary College was named SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year.

Gallagher, a junior catcher from Missouri City, Texas, leads the SCAC heading into the conference tournament in both batting average (.436) and runs batted in (42). She is also in the top 10 in the league in six other offensive categories, including on-base percentage (.508 – second), slugging percentage (.606 – third), hits (41 – third), doubles (13 – second), walks (16 – second) and total bases (57 – fifth). Gallagher is the second consecutive Texas Lutheran student-athlete to earn SCAC Player-of-the-Year honors, following teammate Ashley Jacobsen who earned the award in 2014.

Gallagher received five votes in the SCAC Player-of-the-Year balloting, while senior catcher Caitlynn Dykes of Trinity and senior catcher Taylor Garcia of the University of Dallas received one vote each.

Grissom, a junior right-hander from Spring, Texas, leads the SCAC with a 0.59 ERA, and is a perfect 16-0 record with a league-leading six shutouts in eight complete games. In 83.1 innings of work, Grissom, a three-time SCAC Player-of-the-Week during the regular season, has struck out 35 batters with only 13 walks while holding opponents to the lowest batting average against in the conference at .167. She is the first player to win back-to-back Pitcher of the Year honors since DePauw's Megan Soultz earned the honor three straight years (2008-2010).

Grissom received five votes for SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year, while sophomore right-hander Katie Lee of the University of Dallas received the remaining two votes.

Dunn, a first-year shortstop from Shreveport, La., completed her inaugural season with a .409 batting average – which was fourth in the SCAC and tops among all first-year players. She currently leads the conference in home runs (5), total bases (63) and slugging percentage (.677) and is in the top 10 in the league in hits (38 – seventh), runs (24 – eighth), doubles (8 – 10th) and on-base percentage (.462 – fourth). Dunn also earned Second Team all-conference honors at shortstop in this year's balloting to become just the fourth player in program history to be selected First or Second Team All-SCAC in the school's three seasons as a member of the conference. Teammate and fellow freshman Morgan Daigle also earned Second Team all-conference honors this year.

In the balloting for SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year, Dunn received four votes while freshman utility player Sydney Christopher of Schreiner University, freshman third baseman Madison Goforth of Dallas and freshman outfielder Sydney Oorlog of Southwestern each received one vote.

In his fourth season at Texas Lutheran, Wilson led the Bulldogs to the SCAC regular season title with a perfect 23-0 conference mark – giving the program a dominant 44-1 record in conference competition in two seasons as a member of the SCAC. After winning the SCAC championship a year ago, this season's squad outscored its conference competition 182-28 while batting .389 and notching a 0.78 ERA. The Bulldogs recently established a new SCAC record for consecutive conference wins when the team swept Centenary in a four-game set to end the 2015 regular season. Dating to last season, TLU has won 34 straight conference games – breaking the old mark established by DePauw University who won 33 straight in conference from 2007 to 2010. In his four years at the helm of the Bulldog program and heading into this weekend's conference tournament, Wilson has amassed an 118-42 overall record (.738) and has over 500 career wins counting his nine seasons as a head coach at Brenham High School in Brenham, Texas. This is the third consecutive conference Coach-of-the-Year honor for Wilson as he was honored as ASC Coach-of-the-Year in 2013 before earning the award the last two seasons in the SCAC.

Wilson garnered five votes from his peers for SCAC Coach-of-the-Year, while Beth Krysiak of the University of Dallas received the remaining two votes.

2015 SCAC Player-of-the-Year
Jennifer Gallagher, Texas Lutheran University, Junior, Catcher, Missouri City, Texas

2015 SCAC Pitcher-of-the-Year
Taylor Grissom, Texas Lutheran University, Junior, Pitcher, Spring, Texas

2015 SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year
Anna Dunn, Centenary College, Freshman, Shortstop, Shreveport, La.

2015 SCAC Coach-of-the-Year
Wade Wilson, Texas Lutheran University, 33-4 Overall Record (23-0 SCAC)

To view the entire 2015 SCAC All-Conference Team, click here.