[2] Upon graduation in 1980, Garcia taught physical education and coached girls' basketball at St. Joseph by the Sea High School on Staten Island.
In 2001, while she was the associate athletic director at St. Francis, Garcia earned her master's degree from Brooklyn College in sports administration.
[6] 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[7] and men's volleyball[8] 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.