1993, '95, '97, '98, `04 Patriot League Coach of the Year

In his 17th season as head coach of the Navy golf program, Pat Owen is intent on guiding the Midshipmen back atop the Patriot League standings.

Last spring, Navy fielded one of the youngest teams in recent memory with just one senior, team captain Jeremy Garner, anchoring the squad. Despite its youth, Navy showed its competitors what hard work and will can accomplish by finishing second at the Patriot League Championship, just three strokes out of first place. Two Mids garnered All-Patriot League kudos for placing among the top 10, including Chris Renninger who came up just a stroke shy of claiming the individual title. Meanwhile, Chip Hardie capped off a successful sophomore campaign with a sixth-place finish.

After losing just one player to graduation, experience should be on the side of the Mids who have the luxury of returning seven letterwinners. Captained by Renninger, who, in addition to earning all-league honors, was also named an Academic All-American and the Patriot League Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Navy's three seniors are looking to guide the Midshipmen to their fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in the last eight years.

During his tenure at the Academy, Owen has garnered Patriot League Coach-of-the-Year honors five times (1993, '95, '97, '98 and `04), including Co-Coach of the Year in 2004, while earning NCAA District II Coach-of-the-Year recognition in 1996.

In December of 2004, Owen was one-of-seven finalists named for the inaugural Labron Harris Sr. Award. The Harris Award is presented to the college or high school coach and PGA professional whose support of the game through teaching, coaching and involvement in the community has helped ensure the continued growth of the game and represent the finest qualities the game has to offer.

Owen has led the Midshipmen to four NCAA Regional appearances, including three in the last seven years. In the spring of 1998, he guided the Mids to a fifth-place finish at the Eastern Championship and their first NCAA Regional appearance. Anchored by one of the most successful golfers in the history of the program in All-American Aaron Wright, Navy finished 19th at the East Regional held at Melrose Golf Course in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Just three years after Wright's graduation from the Academy, Owen landed a recruit who would go on to be one of the top young amateur players in the country and lead the Mids to a pair of NCAA Regional apearances. Billy Hurley, a member of the 2005 Walker Cup team, came to the Academy during the 2000-01 academic year and quickly made a name for himself. But it wasn't until the summer of 2003 that he gained national attention, where he battled to the No. 2 seed in the U.S. Amateur. A four-time All-Patriot League selection and 2004 Patriot League MVP, Hurley became the first golfer to receive the Academy's Thompson Trophy Cup, presented to that midshipman, male or female, who has done the most during the year to promote athletics at the Naval Academy. The recipient of the 2004 Byron Nelson Award, he was one of the first-two players to be named to the 2004 Palmer Cup and is the first player to represent a service academy in the annual Ryder Cup-style competition. In addition, he was voted to serve as captain by his peers. An excellent student, as well, Hurley was named an Academic All-American, in addition to being named the Patriot League Male Scholar-Athlete of the year his senior campaign.

Prior to being named head coach at Navy in 1991, Owen served as an assistant coach for the Midshipmen for four years.

Owen is a 1981 graduate of Johns Hopkins, where he served as captain of the golf team his senior year. After turning professional, Owen earned national recognition with the highest score on the PGA of America's Business School exam. In addition to his coaching duties, Owen is the golf pro at the U.S. Naval Academy Golf Course. Owen and his wife, Karen, are the parents of a son, Patrick, and daughter, Noelle, and reside in Annapolis.