Director of rugby
Koma Gandy
Koma's playing and coaching career spans more than two decades, at collegiate, club and domestic elite level. She spent ten years with the international touring side Atlantis Rugby and three years in the USA Women's National Team sevens athlete pool, and won two national championships with New York Rugby Club in the Women's Premier League and one with Beantown RFC.
Koma was head coach of the All Navy Men's Rugby Program, which represents the US Navy in the annual Armed Forces Men's Rugby Championship. During her tenure All Navy won the Armed Forces Championship, a Rugbytown Shield Championship and several Sea Service championships, unofficially awarded to the highest performing rugby program among the Sea Services. She was also instrumental in laying the groundwork for the officially recognized Armed Forces Women's Rugby Championships.
She has also coached with New York Rugby Club and Village Lions RFC, the US Women's National Team Pathway Program, the Women's Club All Star Program, the Maroons Caribbean Rugby Program at the World Rugby 7s tournament in Grenada, and the Canadian Howlers, an international touring side from Saskatchewan formerly known as the Dog River Howlers.
Koma has completed coach education and shadowing programs with the US Men's and Women's National Team Programs in Chula Vista, California, and with Connacht Rugby, one of Ireland's four provincial teams, which competes in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup.
Koma serves on the boards of USA Rugby, the national governing body for rugby in the US and a member of the USOPC, and of Women's Elite Rugby.
