Sixteen SEC Championships and ten national titles give Suzanne Yoculan Leebern a legendary status as a coach. Men’s golf associate head coach Jim Douglas said, “What a great thing. That’s like having Herschel Walker with Vince Dooley as a volunteer coach.”
Leebern addressed one of her big roles as a volunteer coach – recruiting:
“The biggest thing that is going to be different for me being involved in recruiting part is that everyone wanted to come to Georgia. By the time I retired in 2009, we had a waiting list. I mean, we got to basically choose and now that’s changed and there’s going to have to be some serious, hard-core recruiting. But there are so many top-level athletes now that weren’t as available years ago. There are elites and Olympians and high-level National team members going into college that didn’t use to do that.”