Georgia McCarthy at the NYSAAA state conference with her sons, John and Kenny.
Georgia McCarthy at the NYSAAA state conference with her sons, John and Kenny.

H-ton Alum & Former Director Named to Wall of Honor

April 29, 2025

Huntington High School alum and retired district director of health, physical education and interscholastic athletics Georgia D. McCarthy has been named to the New York State Athletic Administrators Association’s Wall of Honor at the organization’s annual conference in Saratoga.

Retired Huntington Director of Health, Physical Education & Athletics Georgia McCarthy in Saratoga.

“The NYSAAA Wall of Honor is organized as a means of recognizing outstanding interscholastic athletic administrators for their contributions and achievements at the local, state and national levels,” according to the organization.

Ms. McCarthy was joined by retired Smithtown School District director of athletics Patrick Smith as this year’s NYSAAA Wall of Honor inductees from Section XI.

A member of Huntington High School’s Class of 1982, Ms. McCarthy was an outstanding athlete and earned a full NCAA Division I basketball scholarship to James Madison University, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications.

Employed by ABC Television in Virginia, handling sports logging and writing duties, Ms. McCarthy later held a similar position with NBC in New York before ultimately deciding to pursue a career in education.

Adelphi University awarded Ms. McCarthy a master’s degree in physical education in 1990. Her first teaching job was at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, where she also coached varsity girls’ basketball and soccer and junior varsity softball.

Ms. McCarthy began her career in Huntington UFSD in 1992 as a physical education teacher at Flower Hill and later worked at Huntington Intermediate and the high school. She coached the Blue Devil JV girls’ basketball team for five seasons and won four Coach of the Year Awards. She also coached the boys’ JV basketball team, volunteered with the boys’ varsity basketball squad, served as JV softball coach and coached boys’ varsity volleyball.

After teaching for 12 years, Ms. McCarthy obtained state administrative certification at Dowling College. She was named district director of health, physical education and athletics in 2002. In addition to her other duties, she was Huntington’s coordinator of driver education and chairperson of the district’s Comprehensive Health Advisory Council.

She was active on the college level, too, first as Adelphi’s head women’s tennis coach and then as a graduate assistant in the women’s basketball program.

Section XI’s female Athletic Council representative for Conference II, Ms. McCarthy also served as the Conference II vice president. She was Section XI’s representative on the New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s modified (middle school/junior high school) committee. She was the Section XI Modified Committee chairperson.

A member of Section XI’s official’s negotiation, finance, sportsmanship and eligibility committees, Ms. McCarthy was also a President’s Committee member. She was president of the Suffolk County Athletic Directors’ Association.

A love for sports led Ms. McCarthy to develop a summer lacrosse and basketball camp, which she directed for nine years and which grew to become one of the premier programs in the northeast. She was an AAU basketball coach for many years.

Ms. McCarthy was joined at the NYSAAA Wall of Honor induction dinner by her two sons, John and Kenny, who are both Huntington High School graduates and her brother, Glen, who is also a Blue Devil alum.