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PDGA Diversity and Outreach

Diversity and Outreach Program Enters Second Year

The PDGA Diversity and Outreach Task Force is entering its second year in 2022. Photo: PDGA Media

Nearly one year after taking flight, the PDGA Diversity and Outreach Task Force is having an impact throughout the country.

There are already plans to continue that work in 2022.

PDGA Diversity Grant Reaches Qualla Boundary

A student at Cherokee Middle School in North Carolina putts during P.E. class. Photo: Cherokee One Feather

Disc golf is growing in the Qualla Boundary in western North Carolina.

Recently, students at Cherokee Middle School received instructional videos, new baskets and over 75 discs as a part of a PDGA Diversity and Outreach Grant Program, bringing disc golf into the community for the first time.

PDGA Launches Diversity and Outreach Grant Program

The PDGA announces a new Diversity and Outreach Grant Program, the first major initiative by the recently formed Diversity and Outreach Task Force.

The Grant Program aims to encourage members to design and implement ways to move the PDGA membership, and the sport of disc golf, toward greater diversity.

PDGA Diversity and Outreach Task Force Takes Flight

Women, as well as Black, Latino, Indiginous and People of Color, have been historically underrepresented in disc golf. Photo: Alyssa Van Lanen Images

In June 2020, as the PDGA prepared to revive global competition after the COVID-19 pandemic forced months of postponements and cancellations, another cultural earthquake was underway. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others sent demonstrators into the streets to protest racial injustice, and many throughout the United States were forced to take stock of their own prejudice and privilege.