Veronique Drouin has been named the new head women's golf coach at OU, Athletics Director Joe Castiglione announced yesterday.

Drouin has been an assistant coach at Georgia for the last four years.

"Veronique Drouin brings the teaching skills, passion, character and recruiting ability we need in this leadership role to build on the foundation of what has been established here," Castiglione said. "As we diligently researched all of our candidates, we constantly heard her name as someone who has been involved with the development of highly successful programs at two universities.

During her four years at Georgia, the Bulldogs achieved three top-10 and four top-20 finishes in the National Championships. Individually, 11 All-Americans and two SEC champions came out of the program while Drouin was on staff.

Drouin said she jumped at the opportunity to come to OU.

"The quality of the people is probably the thing that was most attractive to me," Drouin said, "but I can't say enough about how big Oklahoma is in the academic and athletic world. The facilities are great, the department is definitely one of the best and the university has a wonderful reputation. When you add in the commitment to excellence it's really an exceptional situation."