brendan o’shea

Brendan O'Shea is an experienced athletic administrator and coach, who has worked for college and high school athletic departments and youth sports companies, including Fordham University, Iona College, Bronxville School District, Fastbreak Sports, 6th Boro Hoops, Fenom Fire, New Rochelle Knights and The Montfort Academy. While Director of Athletics at The Montfort Academy, O'Shea expanded the Athletics program from 9 teams to 16 teams, built the girls program up to join the CHSAA, and led the creation of the HVSSA. At Montfort, the Knights grew from a program with a few sports that played a few games a year, to a school that utilized athletic facilities, relationships with programs across Section 1, CHSAA, NYSAIS and the CSSA, increased the game and practice schedule by 50% and revamped the PE curriculum. O'Shea also led a project of sanding, painting and adding padding to the gym, and expanding the weight room. All of this was done in just 2 years!

Currently, Brendan is in his 2nd year as the Director of Athletics & Student Life at Garden School, a K-12 NYASAIS school in Queens, while also still serving as the Coordinator as the HVSSA. In this role, O'Shea oversees an Assistant Athletic Director, and PE staff, and has hired 10 coaches outside Garden for the first time in the schools history. His emphasis at Garden has been building the culture, by providing student-athletes with better coaching, more practices and more games, while also building the programs from the ground up by creating 5th/6th grade teams. The school has grown from 19 teams to 23 teams in this time. In this role, Brendan also teaches fitness, where he has revamped the program to allow students to develop their bodies during the school day. As a coach, O'Shea has served a number of roles, including the Varsity Boys Basketball coach, where he led the team to the Varsity playoffs for the first time in over a decade.
As HVSSA coordinator, O'Shea has worked with athletic directors across the Hudson Valley to provide a competitive league for schools that previously did not have a league to compete in. In just our 3rd year, the Volleyball and Soccer leagues have each added a school, the Varsity Boys basketball league grew to 8 teams, we founded a JV league, and this upcoming year we will have a Middle School league for the first time. Despite no longer working for a school in the league, O'Shea takes great pride in the HVSSA because it provides student-athletes of our member schools with amazing opportunities to compete in athletics and create memories of a lifetime. He looks forward to continuing to grow the league, by finding new schools in need of an athletics league, and to grow awareness for our programs in the HVSSA.