MONTGOMERY, Ala. | The Alabama State men's golf program and two Lady Hornets will compete in the PGA Works event on May 8-10, 2023 at Shoal Creek Club & Bent Brook Golf Courses in Birmingham, Ala.

The PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship, formerly the PGA Minority Golf Championship, is in its 37th year and features more than 30 teams representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving institutions from across the nation. 

Alabama State University men's team will compete among 20 NCAA Division I and Division II teams (listed below) and 28 individuals will compete in the men's division.

The women's tournament will have 10 NCAA Division I teams and 25 individuals, including Alabama State's Teresa Diez Dorta and Thayika Kittiyanaruewat.

Men's DI Teams Alabama A&M University Alabama State University Chicago State University Florida A&M University  Howard University North Carolina A&T State University Prairie View A&M University Tennessee State University Texas Southern University University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

Men's DII Teams Bluefield State University Fayetteville State University Johnson C. Smith University Kentucky State University Lincoln University of Missouri  Livingstone College Miles College  Savannah State University Virginia State University Virginia Union University

Women's Teams  Bethune-Cookman University  Chicago State University Delaware State University Howard University North Carolina A&T State University  Prairie View A&M University Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi  Texas A&M University - Kingsville  Texas Southern University  Western New Mexico University

Women's Individual Division
Teresa Diez Dorta - Alabama State University
Thayika Kittiyanaruewat - Alabama State University
Agatha Alesson - University of Arkansas at Little Rock 
Taya Buxton - Paine College
Christina Carroll - University of Delaware
Pin Hsuan Chen - Charlotte University
Veronica Chen - University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Kellie Gachaga - University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Allycia Gan - University of North Alabama

Serah Khanyereri - St. Thomas University
Phu Khine - University of North Carolina Wilmington
Victoria Levy - University of North Carolina Wilmington
Emily Li - University of British Columbia
Mackenzie McCormack - Palm Beach Atlantic University
Ayssa Mercado - Troy University
Kaiyuree Moodley - Charlotte University
Jessica Ng - University of British Columbia
Lawryn Radford - Paine College
Madison Rincon - University of Montevallo 
Martha Sanchez Mejorada Mendoza - Savannah College of Art & Design 
Sonja Tang - University of British Columbia

The individual competition is open to all minority men and women student-athletes playing collegiate golf at the Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA, NJCAA levels, or participants who are enrolled in one of the PGA Golf Management University Programs.

PGA WORKS is designed to evolve the demographic composition of the golf industry's workforce through a variety of programmatic efforts, including leadership development, fellowships, internships, scholarships and Beyond The Green at the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship.

The PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship (originally known as the National Minority College Championship) originated at a meeting in November 1986, following the Jackson State University Golf Tournament. The founders' goal was to elevate the game at minority colleges and universities, by providing student-athletes with the opportunity to compete on a championship stage during an era when they were excluded from playing in many collegiate golf events.

The inaugural Championship was conducted in the spring of 1987, at Highland Park Golf Course, in Cleveland. From 1998 - 2019, PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie hosted the Championship. In 2021, the Championship returned and was hosted at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. In 2006, the PGA of America was granted complete ownership and management of the Championship by the National Minority College Golf Scholarship Fund.

The PGA Works Collegiate Championship is a 54-hole, stroke-play Championship consisting of two divisions: 10 Men's Division I (2022 Champion: Howard University), 10 Men's Division II (2022 Champion: Cal-State-Dominguez Hills, Women's Team Division (2021 and 2022 Champion: Texas A&M Corpus Christi), Men's Individual (2022 Champion: Gregory Odom, Jr. Howard University ) and Women's Individual (2022 Champion: Lucie Charbonnier, Texas A&M Corpus Christi). 

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