The Penn Athletics Department announced today that Francis Vaughn, the Quakers' women's golf coach, will also assume the head duties of the men's program as well.

It's not a new situation for Vaughn; he coached the men from 1996-2002. And heading both programs isn't new for him either. He coached the women as well from 2000-2002, before moving to hold just the women's job.

He takes over a men's group that won the Ivy League Championship last year.

No other Ivy League golf program has this structure. Earlier in the summer, I spoke with coaches from other DI schools that hold the reins over both programs and they noted that the biggest challenge was coordinating both tournament schedules to avoid too many men's and women's conflicts.

Penn's schedules, released last week, have two of four tournaments at different locations on the same weekends.

From Sept. 21-22, the men will be in New York, while the women will be at Princeton that same weekend. October 6 is the women's ECAC championship in Virginia and the men will be competing in the Delaware Invitational at Delaware Park from Oct. 6-7. In the last weekend of fall competition, both teams will be in the Lehigh Invitational.

Also announced was the hiring of former volunteer coach Chad Perman as an assistant coach for both the men's and women's teams.

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