Staff

Front Office

Lisa Garza

Co-Founder

Lisa is not new to soccer. Her father, Nick (Nicky) Borzillo played soccer with the group of soccer players from “The Hill”, who played in the World Cup in 1950, representing USA. Her father at that time was in the Korean War but began playing with the team in 1951. Nick was in many newspaper articles for playing soccer with the team. Lisa’s son Ricardo Garza inherited her father’s gene for soccer. And so, she became a very supportive “Soccer Mom” for many years. So much that she decided to purchase the Club Atletico Saint Louis team her son was coaching. Lisa has been in operations / design field for 20 years. She is organized, efficient, committed to excellence, and attention to detail.

Ricardo Garza

Co-Founder | Head Coach

Emailricardo@gobluebirds.com

Ricardo Garza has 20 years of experience in coaching and developing the game of soccer. Ricardo helped launch two international soccer academies bridging two continents into the St. Louis soccer community. Club Atletico Juniors soccer academy is located in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Club Atletico CRSA is located in Lusaka, Zambia. Garza grew up playing youth soccer in South St. Louis, Missouri and attended Bishop DuBourg High School. In 2005 Garza helped launched Jefferson College and soon after became the head coach. Garza won a National Championship and multiple Conference, Regional and District Championships. Garza's mission in life is to connect cultures together and include all communities of the St. Louis area. Garza wants to fight inequality for youth and provide opportunity to all communities across St. Louis. Garza founded Crossover Media, a marketing company specializing in Video Content Creation.

Martino Garza

Gameday Operations Coordinator

Emailmartino@gobluebirds.com

Terry Michler

Official color commentator | Live Broadcast

Community Outreach

Jenny Carrillo

Girls Youth Academy Director

Pecola Jaye

Blue Diamond Squuad Coach

Rachel Theolus

Community Liason