PHILADELPHIA — The Chicago State women's golf team competed today in the first round of the 2022 PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship.
Jordyn Sims led the way for CSU on day one, earning a nine-over 79. Koranis Boonmadee and Faith McKinney each placed 14th with a score of 11-over 81.
Formerly known as the PGA Minority Golf Championship, the three-day event brings on more than 30 schools representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving institutions from across the nation.
This year's event spans two courses: Union League Liberty Hill and the Union League Golf Club at Torresdale. The Union League, the top ranked City Club in the nation, was established in 1862 in support of Abraham Lincoln's policies. To this day, the club aims to harness values of inclusion in its operation.
Complete results are listed below and available here courtesy of GolfStat.
Chicago State Cougars:
T9. Jordyn Sims, 79 (+9)
T14. Koranis Boonmadee, 81 (+11)
T14. Faith McKinney, 81 (+11)
T17. Darinka Velazquez, 82 (+12)
T28. Montserrat Ramirez Bayardo, 87 (+17)
The Cougars will head back to Union League tomorrow for the second round.
About Chicago State
Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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