Greg McGarity, the University of Georgia’s athletic director for the past eleven years, will officially retire at the year’s end.
McGarity began his role within UGA athletics at the young age of ten, where he was a helper to then tennis coach Dan Magill. He served as the UGA women’s tennis coach from 1977-1981 before he began his roles as an administrative assistant and assistant athletic director for the Dawgs.
McGarity was the University of Florida’s No. 2 athletics official when UGA offered him the AD job back in 2010. He is an Athens native and graduate of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Georgia.