Irma Garcia

Irma Garcia is an American college athletic administrator and former basketball coach. She is athletic director at Manhattan College, a position she has held since 2023. She previously held the same position at St. Francis College in Brooklyn until the school disbanded its entire athletics program following the 2022–23 school year. When she took the job in 2007, Garcia was the first Latina athletic director in NCAA Division I sports. Garcia served as the head women's basketball coach at St. Francis from 1988 to 1999.

Early life and education Garcia was raised in a Catholic-Puerto Rican family in Brooklyn and has seven siblings. The award was in part because of the Terriers success in Men's Soccer (NEC Champions and NCAA Tournament Participants), Men's Basketball (NEC Regular Season Champions and NIT Participants) and Women's Basketball (NEC Champions and NCAA Tournament Participants).

During Garcia's tenure as director of athletic the St. Francis College Athletics program changed their brand from St. Francis (NY) to St. Francis Brooklyn. The College previously came to be known as St. Francis (NY) when the athletics program joined the Division I Northeast Conference in 1981. In 2018 it was announced that women's soccer and men's volleyball would be added as sports programs to the existing 19 teams at St. Francis College. Both teams will begin play in the 2019–20 school year, with women's soccer starting in fall 2019 and men's volleyball in spring 2020.

In 2023, Garcia was appointed the interim director of athletics at Manhattan College. She took office on August 1, 2023 and her interim tag was removed the following month.

Head coaching career