Staff

The Garza family transitioned into the ownership of Club Atletico Saint Louis in 2018 after the team's inaugural season. For league identification purpose only the family is labeled owners of the team however In 2020, the Garza family decided to convert the team to a non-profit organization because their focus is to serve the community.

Staff

Front Office

Lisa Garza

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

Ricardo Garza

Co-Founder | Head Coach

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 launch Jefferson College men's program 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.  

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 launch Jefferson College men's program 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.  

Currently, Ricardo is Head Men's and Women's coach at St. Louis CC.  He has lead his team to the Regional Championship game 3 out of 4 seasons he has been the at St. Louis CC. Both his Men's and Women's programs are ranked in the top 15 and his Men's team has been honored with the #1 most competitive schedule in the country.  The Women were in the top 3.  Ricardo believes without playing top competition on a consistent basis, ultimate development can not be achieved.  This is why summer soccer with the NPSL and MWPL is a key part of his life.

Ricardo is husband to Allison and father to their kids, Nico, Layla, Giavanna and Ezry.

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Martino Garza

Martino Garza

Gameday Operations Coordinator
Ashley Biundo

Ashley Biundo

Media Director

Ashley was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Graduated from Fox High School in 2015 and graduated from STLCC-Meramec in 2017. Got into sports at 2 years old and began to play soccer from 4 years old until graduating high school. 

Ashley was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Graduated from Fox High School in 2015 and graduated from STLCC-Meramec in 2017. Got into sports at 2 years old and began to play soccer from 4 years old until graduating high school. 

Joined the newspaper in college and did sports journalism for 6 years and the last 2 years became Editor-in-Chief.

I grew up in photography because of my mom and began taking classes in high school and in college.

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