Athletics Directory
Gail Stentiford
Administrative Staff
Assistant Director for Recreation
Telephone: 998-2018
Email: ghs2@nyu.edu
The 2007-08 academic year marks Gail Stentiford’s 26th as the Assistant Director of Recreation and Club Sports in New York University’s Department of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation. Included among Stentiford’s wide range of duties are designing, managing and directing the NYU recreation program, which annually serves 17,000 students, faculty, alumni, family, and community members of the Coles Sports Center; the Palladium Athletic Facility and the Chelsea Piers Sports Complex.
Stentiford also hires and supervises 100-150 recreation instructors and 35 club sport coaches annually. She oversees the exercise prescription program, as well as home basketball game promotions and half-time special events.
Stentiford also serves as the coach for the cheerleaders, dance team, mascots, and pep band. Her dance team won the National Dance Association Division II National Championship in 2001.
A 1967 graduate of Springfield College with a bachelor of science degree in physical education, Stentiford earned a master’s of arts degree in recreation and leisure from NYU in 1987 and a sixth-level certificate in leisure counseling in 1989.
Stentiford was also an adjunct faculty instructor in NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the Program Director for the Fitness Instructor Certification Program in the School of Continuing Education.
Before coming to NYU, Stentiford was a school teacher at the Walden School in Manhattan and the Sandy Hill School in Paterson, New Jersey. She also worked at the Kings Bay YHMA in Brooklyn. While there, she served as an assistant supervisor of health and physical education, a gymnastics coach, a program director for children’s aquatics and gymnastics, and as an instructor for parent-child gymnastics, aerobics, aqua-aerobics, yoga, and senior adult fitness.
Stentiford, whose favorite color is purple and loves coffee ice cream, is a Manhattan resident.