DALLAS – The 2022-23 Conference USA men’s golf all-conference and superlative honors were announced Monday with Middle Tennessee’s Owen Stamper named the C-USA Men’s Player of the Year. Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, all-conference and all-freshman selections are determined the national rankings by Golfstat, while the Coach of the Year was selected by a vote of the league’s head coaches.
 
Middle Tennessee boasts the Player of the Year in Stamper, as well as the league’s Freshman of the Year, Markus Varjun. Louisiana Tech head coach Matt Terry was tabbed Coach of the Year after leading the Bulldogs to the final match play round of the Conference USA Championship.
 
Nine of 10 C-USA men’s golf programs collected all-conference accolades, while four institutions were represented on the all-freshman team. Middle Tennessee led the way with three players represented across the three all-conference teams and also had a pair of all-freshman team members, while Rice, UTSA and Florida Atlantic each placed two on the all-conference squads.
 
Stamper, the 162^nd-ranked player in the country and a three-time C-USA Golfer of the Week selection, finished second at the 2023 C-USA Championship in Texarkana, Arkansas, at even par and helped lead the Blue Raiders to an NCAA at-large selection that placed Middle Tennessee in the Salem Regional, which gets underway May 15-17.
 
Varjun is the league’s highest-ranked freshman by Golfstat and was named C-USA Golfer of the Week after finishing in a tie for eighth at the Grover Page Classic with a pair of sub-70 rounds during the fall portion of the season.
 
Terry’s Bulldogs reached the match play portion of the 2023 C-USA Championship for just the second time in program history, which included a win over No. 2 seed Middle Tennessee to reach the match play finals after finishing third in stroke play. James Swash, a first team all-conference selection also won the individual conference title with a -2 performance during stroke play.
 
Player of the Year
Owen Stamper, Middle Tennessee
 
Freshman of the Year
Markus Varjun, Middle Tennessee
 
Phillip Hatchett Coach of the Year
Matt Terry, Louisiana Tech

First Team All-Conference
Owen Stamper, Middle Tennessee
Vicente Marzilio, North Texas
Dongjin Park, Charlotte
Raghav Chugh, Rice
James Swash, Louisiana Tech
 
Second Team All-Conference
Tucker Allen, North Texas
Khavish Varadan, UAB
Michael Barnard, Middle Tennessee
Alex Maguire, Florida Atlantic
Max Schliesing, UTEP
 
Third Team All-Conference
Max Sturdza, Florida Atlantic
Hunter Bott, UTSA
Kevin Jegers, Middle Tennessee
Christian Fanfelle, UTSA
Jay Kirchdorfer, Rice
 
All-Freshman Team
Markus Varjun, Middle Tennessee
Carter Maneth, Middle Tennessee
Lukas Boandl, Rice
Alvaro Roldos, North Texas
Brayden Bare, UTSA