In exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), the league office today announced the 2023 men's golf postseason award winners. 2023 All-SCAC Men's Golf Team

Tuten earned Coach of the Year honors after leading St. Thomas to the 2023 SCAC Men's Golf Championship, and a berth in the NCAA Division III Golf Championship field, their first season eligible for NCAA post season play after transitioning from NAIA. At the national championship tournament which was contested at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky, the Celts made the cut, shot a final round 294-team score - their second-best of the tournament - and finished with four-day score of 1197, good for 16th place in the 43-team field.

Back in April at the SCAC championships at Riverhill Country Club, and behind all-conference performances from all four of its scoring players, the Celts surged late and earned its first-ever SCAC men's golf title, shooting a team score of 294 on the final day to finish with a three-day total of 884 (+20) - seven shots clear of Schreiner University. As clustered as teams were heading into Tuesday's final round, the final margin of seven shots is the largest team victory since the Southwestern men defeated Trinity by nine shots at the 2017 championships.

In his eighth season at the helm of both Celts' golfing programs, the SCAC COTY honor is the first for Tuten and just the second in a spring sport for the St. Thomas athletic department, following the selection of Angela Froboese as SCAC Softball Co-Coach of the Year in 2022.