Coach Owen is in his 30th year at Oglethorpe University. This season marks Owen's 18th year coaching the men's golf team and 8th year with the women's program. Owen, a 1981 graduate of Berry College, arrived on campus in the summer of 1981 as a graduate assistant basketball coach and intramural director.  At Berry, Owen was a three year starting guard and was named basketball team MVP his senior season.  He was named Most Outstanding Senior Athlete at Berry College later that spring.  He served as an assistant basketball coach from 1981-1997 before assuming the head coaching responsibilities from 1998-2003.  During his tenure, Oglethorpe joined the NCAA Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) and expanded the sports programs offered at Oglethorpe from six to fifteen.

In 1993, Owen took two individual male golfers to the SCAC Conference Golf Championship in Jackson, Mississippi.  Those two golfers began the program that has developed in the last twelve years into one of the most respected in the nation.  Since 2000, a span of 11 consecutive years, the Stormy Petrel men have been ranked inside the top 10 in the nation. They have also finished in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships during that span. Owen has coached 36 All-SCAC performers including four in 2009-2010 when Oglethorpe's Scott Pugh, Matt Rebitch, Craig Stevenson and Eric Quinn were honored at the SCAC Championship in Stone Mountain, Georgia. 

Owen has coached nine men's SCAC Championship teams in the past 14 years including four in a row from 2000-2003. He was named SCAC Coach of the Year in 11 of the last 14 seasons. Owen was honored as the South Region Coach of the Year in 2002 and was a finalist for 2002 NCAA National Coach of the Year.

In 2009, Owen guided the Stormy Petrels to the school's first ever NCAA Championship in any sport when the team dramatically rallied to claim the title at the PGA Villages in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

He has coached eight SCAC Player's of the Year including Tolliver Williams (1996, 1998), Robert Fink (2001), Chris Summers (2002), Trent Erb (in 2003 and 2004), Taylor Urbanski ( 2008) and Scott Pugh (2009).

On the regional and national level, Owen had 13 of his 17 teams represented at the NCAA National Tournament. The Stormy Petrels have had 13 Academic All-Americans and sixteen NCAA Division III All-Americans since the 1998 season. In 2003 Joe Green was honored with Oglethorpe's first National Freshman of the Year Award. In 2007, Taylor Urbanski completed a rare feat by being named to both the academic and athletic All-American teams. In 2011, Eric quinn and Craig Stevenson were named to the prestigious twelve member All-South Region team bringing the total to 16 All-Region players honored from Oglethorpe in his tenure. Owen has served three terms on the NCAA South Region National Selection Committee.

Oglethorpe, in partnership with the Central Florida Sports Commission, hosted the 2005 Men's NCAA Division III National Tournament at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort near Orlando, Florida. In 2006 and 2007 Oglethorpe was awarded the Women's NCAA Division III National Championships. Oglethorpe hosted the NCAA Women's Championship in the spring of 2011 and is set to host the men's side in 2012.

In the fall of 2003, Owen retired from his basketball coaching duties and officially began the women's golf program.  The women's team has been an off again on again process since its inception in 1998 with five different coaches in the last six years.  Owen has brought increasing continuity to the women's program and consistency in recruiting. In 2006, the women broke through with a spectacular 2nd place finish at the SCAC Conference Championship. In 2007, the women's team finished third and in 2008 placed fifth.

The Stormy Petrels fielded teams that competed in the SCAC tournament in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 with their best finishes being fifth place in 1998, 1999, and 2001.  In 1999 and again as a senior in 2001, Kristi Wright earned 2nd Team All-SCAC for her play at the Spring Festival. 

In 2004 and again in 2005 the Stormy Petrel women finished fifth in SCAC Conference Championship play. At the Renaissance PineIsle Resort golf course hosted by Oglethorpe University in 2004 on beautiful Lake Lanier Heather March earned second team SCAC honors. In 2005 in Arkansas, freshman Julia Gates and junior Mallory Pusch both earned second team SCAC honors. This past season, Katie Dale earned her fourth All-SCAC Women's Golf finishing seventh overall and became the first women's golfer to earn Academic All-American honors at all four of the NGCA banquets. She is the first four-time Academic All-American in school history. 

In 2008, Oglethorpe said goodbye to two-time All-American and four-time All-SCAC honoree Julia Gates. Julia finished the 2007 NCAA Championship in 18th place and returned in 2008 as a senior and finished in 13th place earning her Oglethorpe's first All-American women's golfer.

Owen was inducted in May of 2001 into the Oglethorpe Athletic Hall of Fame for his twenty years of dedicated service to the University. Owen lives in Suwanee, Georgia with his wife Anjie and their children Jayce, 19, and Michaela, 14.