Veronique Drouin-Luttrell was named Oklahoma's head women's golf coach on June 24, 2009, and has quickly turned the Sooners into a national power.
In only her fourth season at the OU helm, Drouin-Luttrell has directed the Sooners to top-five finishes in more than half of their tournaments, including 14 of 22 events in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. Her OU squads won four team titles the past two campaigns and posted 11 top-three finishes in 22 tournaments.
Under her direction, the Sooners qualified for the 2011 NCAA West Regional, won the 2012 Big 12 Championship (OU's first league title in 12 years) and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2002, where they tied the program's best-ever finish (sixth). Chirapat Jao-Javanil, one of Drouin-Luttrell's first OU recruits, became the program's first individual NCAA champion. She won the 2012 national title by four shots (-6) in a field of 126 competitors in Franklin, Tenn.
Thanks to OU's remarkable success in 2011-12 (which included three team victories), Drouin-Luttrell was named Big 12 Coach of the Year and National Golf Coaches Association Central Region Coach of the Year.
Prior to arriving in Norman, Drouin-Luttrell served an assistant coach at Georgia for four years. During her tenure at UGA, the Bulldogs notched three top-10 and four top-20 finishes at the NCAA Championships. Individually, Georgia produced 11 All-Americans and two SEC champions while she was on staff.
During Drouin-Luttrell's first full season at Georgia in 2006, the Bulldogs won two prestigious events -- the Golf Daytona Beach Fall Preview and the SEC Championship. Drouin-Luttrell also served as interim head coach during the 2007 Central Regional and NCAA Championships, leading the Bulldogs to second- and eighth-place finishes, respectively.
Before her time at Georgia, Drouin-Luttrell was a graduate assistant at Kent State for two-and-a-half years. She also enjoyed a standout playing career with the Golden Flashes as the 2000 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Freshman of the Year, the 2003 MAC Golfer of the Year and a three-time first-team All-MAC performer.
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| The Drouin-Luttrell File |
| Hometown |
St. Agnes, Quebec |
| College |
Kent State, 2003 |
| Family |
Husband, Evan |
| Coaching History |
| 2009-present - Oklahoma Head Coach |
| 2006-09 - Georgia Assistant Coach |
| 2003-06 - Kent State Graduate Assistant |
| Playing Experience |
| 2000-03 - Kent State University |
| Playing Honors |
| Finished 2006 as the No. 8 player in Canada |
| Three-time first-team All-MAC performer |
| 2003 MAC Golfer of the Year |
| 2000 MAC Freshman of the Year |
As a senior, Drouin-Luttrell helped lead Kent State to a second-place finish at the 2003 Central Regional and a 19th place showing at the NCAA Championships. Two years earlier, she helped lead the Golden Flashes to a 15th-place finish at the 2001 NCAAs, the program's best effort ever.
Drouin-Luttrell continued to compete as an amateur, and she finished 2006 at No. 8 in Canada's national rankings.
Drouin-Luttrell was runner-up at the 2006 Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur Championship after tying for medalist honors and falling in a playoff.
Her additional amateur highlights include: advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2005 British Ladies' Amateur; representing Canada at the 2003 Commonwealth Games and the 2003 and 2005 Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship; winning the 2001 and 2003 Quebec Amateur Championship; finishing eighth at the 2004 Royale Cup Canadian Women's Amateur; and finishing fifth in stroke play qualifying at the 2004 British Ladies' Am.
A native of St. Anges, Quebec, Drouin-Luttrell received her bachelor's degree in business administration from Kent State in the spring of 2003 and her master's in sports management from Kent State in 2007. She married her husband, Evan, in February 2012.
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