The search for a new women”s golf coach is over. Purdue assistant golf coach Christie Hermes has taken the job, ISU athletics director Bruce Van De Velde announced Wednesday.

Hermes will replace Julie Manning, who accepted a job with the University of Colorado athletic department during winter break.

‘Christie was our No. 1 choice and we are excited to have been able to retain her as our next head coach,’ Van De Velde said in a press release. ‘We believe she will take our women”s golf program to the next level and do a great job of teaching and recruiting quality student-athletes.’

Hermes helped the Purdue women”s golf team make three NCAA championship tournaments in a row. The Boilermakers produced eight all-Big 10 players, five academic All-Americans, three tournament team titles and a pair of individual tournament champions in her three-year stint as an assistant.

‘Iowa State is a school at which you can recruit women to excel in competition and academically,’ Hermes said in the release. ‘I am going to do everything I can to build on what has already been accomplished at ISU.

‘I have high aspirations for this program.’

Hermes played golf as a collegian at Northwestern University where she was a three-time academic all-Big 10 honoree. She led the Wildcats to the 2000 NCAA championship tournament, their first appearance in school history.

— Nathan Wilcke

ISU Media Relations contributed to this article.