INDIANAPOLIS — Manhattan Athletics Director Irma Garcia has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee, turning into the seventh lady to serve with this group. Her five-year time period begins instantly and runs by Aug. 31, 2029.
Garcia has been in her present position for a yr. She spent the prior 35 years at St. Francis Brooklyn, first as the ladies’s basketball coach from 1988-99, then because the affiliate athletics director from 1999-2007 after which because the athletics director from 2007-23. St. Francis Brooklyn can also be the place Garcia earned her undergraduate diploma in 1980 whereas taking part in basketball for 4 years on the faculty. Upon graduating, she served as a bodily training teacher and women basketball coach at St. Joseph by-the-Sea Excessive Faculty on Staten Island for eight years. She later earned a grasp’s from Brooklyn Faculty.
Garcia was the Northeast Convention girls’s basketball Coach of the Yr in 1998, received the FCS Administrator of the Yr in 2014-15 from the group now known as Ladies Leaders in Sports activities, and a yr later acquired Division I-AAA Beneath Armour Athletic Director of the Yr honors. The Brooklyn native has additionally served on the Division I Ladies’s Basketball Oversight Committee and is energetic with Ladies Leaders in Sports activities. As well as, she has had management roles with the Nationwide Affiliation of Collegiate Administrators of Athletics, the Minority Alternatives Athletic Affiliation, the Hispanic Affiliation of Faculties and Universities, and the Public Colleges Athletic League of New York Metropolis.
“I’m thrilled to be chosen because the MAAC consultant on the NCAA Division I Males’s Basketball Committee,” Garcia stated. “That is with out query a chance to raise Manhattan Faculty, our convention and Division I males’s basketball. I’m excited to get began working alongside my fellow committee members. The most effective is but to come back!”
Garcia is one among 5 new members of the committee, becoming a member of Mark Jackson of Villanova, Stu Jackson of the West Coast Convention, Brian Thornton of the Western Athletic Convention and Chad Weiberg of Oklahoma State. Bubba Cunningham of North Carolina will chair the committee for the 2024-25 season. Different returning members embody Greg Byrne of Alabama, Mark Coyle of Minnesota, Keith Gill of the Solar Belt Convention, Arthur Johnson of Temple, Martin Newton of Samford and Tom Wistrcill of the Massive Sky Convention.