Louis Garmendia Joins Athletic Department

Sept. 23, 2002

Louis Garmendia has been named assistant sports information director at Clemson University. The Clemson graduate will oversee day-to-day operations of clemsontigers.com, the athletic department’s official website and serve as the publicity contact for rowing and swimming and diving.

Garmendia, 23, has served as a graduate assistant in the sports information department for the last two years while earning his Master of Business Administration degree. He covered baseball, basketball and football, including serving as the layout coordinator for Woodrow Dantzler’s Heisman Trophy promotional calendar in 2001.

The Mt. Pleasant, SC native received a degree in Management with a minor in Computer Science from Clemson in 2000. As an undergraduate, Garmendia was an award-winning sports editor of The Tiger, Clemson University’s student newspaper, for four years and a special correspondent for The State newspaper. He was a member of the IPTAY Student Advisory Board, where he helped create the IPTAY Collegiate Club web site, and is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

Louis is the son of George and Yvonne Garmendia. He has a sister, Susan, who is currently a senior at Clemson, and a brother, Alan, who is a sophomore at Winthrop University.