MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Mulerider Athletics has announced a second-straight "Night of Champions" which will honor the department's three championship teams from Spring 2023. The presentation of each programs' rings will take place on January 20 at 6:30 p.m.inside Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center.
 
Family, friends and supporters of Mulerider Athletics are invited to attend and will be treated to remarks from department administrators and the three head coaches of the championship-winning teams.
 
Southern Arkansas Baseball claimed the Great American Conference regular season championship outright, the program's seventh as a league member and then carried the top seed into the GAC Tournament where it took two of three from (8) Southeastern Oklahoma State in the opening round. SAU then went on to win three-straight games from inside Arvest Ballpark in Springdale to earn its seventh league tournament title and claim the GAC's automatic bid to the NCAA postseason for the 15th time overall and for the third-consecutive season under head coach Justin Pettigrew. The Muleriders saw five members of the 2023 squad garner all-region acclaim, nine receive all-conference honors, with three all-defensive team selections, five all-tournament team members and the tournament MVP to go along with four that were named to all-academic teams. 
 
Mulerider Women's Tennis, under the leadership of fifth-year head coach Greg Owen, earned a share of its second Great American Conference regular season title. The Muleriders won 11 matches last spring, including four in league play. Southern Arkansas won its last four GAC matches, three of which were decided 4-3, in a span of just five days in mid-April. True freshman Annika Berrendorf was named the Great American Conference Women's Tennis Freshman of the Year and she was joined on the All-GAC First Team by unanimous selections Lena Milosevic and Sarah Roy. Greta Wallin received all-league plaudits as she was tabbed to the second team in addition to being joined by Kalley Smith as GAC Distinguished Scholar Athletes.
 
Third-year head coach Neriah Brown's Mulerider Men's Golf team never blinked over the course of the final two and a half months of the season. Six shots back of the advancement line to the NCAA DII National Championship, the Muleriders shot 291 in its final regional round of golf to force a three-team playoff and a two-under sent the program to its first-ever National Tournament in its NCAA Era. That performance followed a program-best finish of second place at the GAC Championships and was made possible by superb play from several Muleriders over the course of the final round of action as SAU entered round three seven strokes back of second place. Junior Caleb Miller headlined the All-Great American Conference selections with a first-team plaudit with Connor Harrington and Logan McDonald receiving all-league honorable mention. Harrington was also named a GAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete for the second-consecutive season. Miller capped the year with All-Central Region honors and as an All-American both on the course and in the classroom.