Coralee Jorgensen is in her 11th year at Augustana after being named the interim head coach for the women’s golf team for 2020-21. She spent her first eight years as an assistant under Peggy Kirby.
In her first season at the helm of the Vikings, Jorgensen saw continued success for the Augustana women's golf program. The team took home the conference championship and finished in sixth place at the NCAA Super Regional. She also saw three student-athletes named First-Team All-NSIC, three student-athletes earn NSIC All-Tournament Team honors, two student-athletes earn NSIC Golfer of the Week honors and four student-athletes named to the NSIC All-Academic team.
During the 2021-22 season, Jorgensen coached a team of athletes that totaled four tournament wins and an NSIC championship title. Jorgensen, fresh off leading the Vikings to the NSIC Championship, earned her second-straight NSIC Coach of the Year honor in her second season leading Augustana. The Vikings led the NSIC in stroke average by more than 11 shots per round at 311.7. Three Vikings were named to the NSIC All-Tournament team, three student-athletes earned All-NSIC First-Team honors and one individual was named the 2022 NSIC Golfer of the Year.
Jorgensen has helped the Vikings to five NCAA National Tournament appearances while claiming eight NSIC Championships. She has helped tutor 35 NSIC All-Conference performers and six NSIC Championship individual medalists. Six individuals have been named the NSIC Player of the Year with Jorgensen on staff.
Jorgensen has over 25 years of experience as a Class A PGA Golf Pro and has been responsible for rebuilding successful women’s, couples and junior golf programs. She has continued this as the Executive Director of First Tee of South Dakota. She spent 15 years at Westward Ho Country Club of Sioux Falls where she first served as the Assistant PGA Pro and was named the Head Golf Pro in 2001, a position she held until starting at First Tee in 2013.
She was named as one of the “Best Teachers in the State of South Dakota” by Golf Digest on eight occasions and was elected to the President’s Council for the PGA of America, a position she held from 2002-06.
She has also been named the Youth Player Development Award Winner for Minnesota Section/PGA of America in 2017 and was named Junior Golf Leader of the Year Dakota Chapter/PGA of America in 2016.
Jorgensen started her professional career as the Assistant PGA Golf Pro for the Oswego Lake Country Club in Oswego, Oregon, in 1987, a position she held for 11 years.
A 2006 inductee of the Coyote Sports Hall of Fame, Jorgensen earned her degree in education from the University of South Dakota while serving as team captain for the women’s golf team. She was the AIAW Regional Medalist in 1980 while helping the Coyotes to the South Dakota AIAW Championship.
She then attended PGA Business School in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and finished in the top-five percent of her class at the PGA Business School II in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986.
