PeterPougnet

Pougnet enters his first season as an assistant coach at Kentucky in 2024-25.

Most recently, Pougnet spent two seasons as the head coach of both men’s and women’s golf at Regis University, a Division II institution in Denver, Colorado. There, he coached the 2024 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference individual champion and helped the women to the program’s second-best scoring average as a team in program history in 2023-24. In all, Pougnet coached three all-conference selections during his time with the Rangers.

Prior to his role at Regis, Pougnet was the head men’s golf coach at Division III Roosevelt University from 2014-2022. His team won 12 events during his tenure, including back-to-back Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference championships in 2020-21 and 2021-22. As a result, Pougnet was named the conference’s coach of the year for both championship-winning seasons. He coached eight all-conference honorees, including both the 2020-21 CCAC Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year.

Pougnet is a 2011 graduate of Grand Valley State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing. He went on to earn his Master of Business Administration from Roosevelt University in 2014.