Feb 17, 2025; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Notre Dame Preventing Irish head coach Niele Ivey talks to protect Hannah Hidalgo (3) within the second half in opposition to the Duke Blue Devils on the Purcell Pavilion. Obligatory Credit score: Matt Cashore-Imagn Pictures
Notre Dame employed alumnus Pat Garrity on Tuesday to function common supervisor of the Preventing Irish males’s and ladies’s basketball groups.
The twin GM function is new at Notre Dame and is believed to be solely the second such function — overseeing each males’s and ladies’s sports activities — in school athletics. Baker Dunleavy holds an analogous place, created in 2023, for Villanova’s basketball packages.
Garrity, 48, will even oversee males’s basketball as its major sports activities administrator.
Garrity graduated in 1998 and was drafted within the first spherical (nineteenth general) that yr by the Milwaukee Bucks. He nonetheless ranks fifth in Notre Dame college historical past with 2,085 profession factors.
The 6-foot-9 ahead spent 10 seasons within the NBA with the Phoenix Suns (1998-99) and Orlando Magic (1999-2008) and averaged 7.3 factors and a pair of.6 rebounds in 552 video games (107 begins).
He was the assistant common supervisor of the Detroit Pistons from 2016-20.
“I am thrilled to be returning to Notre Dame,” Pat Garrity acknowledged. “At each level in my profession and life, Notre Dame has all the time been a second house for me and my household. The College has formed who I’m, and its values resonate deeply inside me.
“… Thanks in your belief and for offering me with this wonderful new alternative. I am unable to wait to start serving our distinctive student-athletes in each packages and contributing to the broader mission of our athletic division and the College.”
The Notre Dame males’s crew completed 15-18 (8-12 ACC) in 2024-25 below second-year coach Micah Shrewsberry, lacking the NCAA Event for a 3rd straight season.
The ladies’s crew went 28-6 (16-2 ACC) final season below fifth-year coach Niele Ivey, reaching the Candy 16 for the fourth straight season.
Garrity’s tasks embrace growing long-term methods for roster administration within the switch portal period, in addition to funds evaluation, income technology, fundraising, alumni relations and facility administration.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to welcome again Pat to Notre Dame,” athletic director Pete Bevacqua mentioned. “With the tempo of change in school sports activities, we knew we needed to discover somebody that might help Micah and Niele with all that is required of high-level basketball packages off the court docket, whereas they centered on teaching and supporting our wonderful student-athletes.
“Having the ability to herald somebody like Pat, who’s a Notre Dame alumnus, former student-athlete, 10-year NBA veteran, former NBA entrance workplace government and Notre Dame mum or dad, made him the proper candidate from the beginning.”
–Discipline Stage Media