Irma Garcia

Irma Garcia
Current position
TitleAthletic director
TeamManhattan Jaspers
ConferenceMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Biographical details
Alma materSt. Francis College (B.S.)
Brooklyn College (M.S.)
Playing career
1976–1980St. Francis Brooklyn
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1988–1999St. Francis Brooklyn
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1999–2007St. Francis Brooklyn (Associate AD)
2007–2023St. Francis Brooklyn
2023–presentManhattan
Head coaching record
Overall68–228
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
1998 NEC Coach of the Year[1]
2009 ECAC Katherine Ley Award Winner[2]
2015 NACWAA D1 (FCS) Administrator of the Year[3]

Irma Garcia is the interim athletics director at Manhattan College. She previously held the same position at St. Francis College until the school disbanded its entire athletics program following the 2022–23 school year. When she took the job in 2007, Garcia was the country's first Latina athletic director in NCAA Division I sports.[4][5]

  1. ^ "NEC Women's Basketball Record Book 1986-2010" (PDF). NortheastConference.org. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  2. ^ "IRMA GARCIA NAMED 2009 ECAC KATHERINE LEY AWARD WINNER - St. Francis Brooklyn Athletics". Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  3. ^ "Irma Garcia Named NACWAA D1 (FCS) Administrator of the Year". sfcathletics.com. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  4. ^ "St. Francis AD had a vision for her future". ESPN. 2008. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  5. ^ Wassef, Mira (December 4, 2007). "Unheralded heights: St. Francis AD Irma Garcia is Division I pioneer". Daily News. New York. Retrieved October 22, 2010.