Bio

Dana Fulmer Garfield serves as Director of Athletics at Mitchell College, a Division III program offering 12 NCAA sponsored sports. Fulmer Garfield oversees and manages all facets of the Athletics Department.

Fulmer Garfield joined the Mitchell athletics staff as the Assistant Athletic Director and was promoted a year later to the Associate Athletic Director where she specialized in NCAA compliance and certification. In the summer of 2015, she accepted the Interim Athletic Director position and was formally appointed to the Director of Athletics position in the fall of 2016.

Fulmer Garfield came to Mitchell after serving as head softball coach for the Division I Providence College Friars. She coached the Friars for nine years before making the transition to athletic administration in 2006.

While at Georgia Southern University, she served two years as the assistant softball coach and helped to coach the program to its first-ever regular season Southern Conference title in 1996. During that time, she also completed a Master of Education degree with an emphasis in Counseling.

Hailing from Blythewood, SC, Fulmer Garfield completed her undergraduate career at the University of South Carolina.

As an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, Fulmer Garfield was a four-year letterwinner as both a catcher and outfielder for the Gamecocks. She was a four-time All-South performer in the sport of softball, earning first team honors for three consecutive seasons. She still holds all-time records for most runs batted in, walks, highest slugging percentage, games played and at bats. Additionally, she ranks in the top two on the list of all-time leading hitters, at bats and hits and in the top five for runs, doubles, triples and home runs.

An All-American selection as a senior, Fulmer Garfield was also named the team's most valuable player as an outfielder and given the scholar-athlete award. She was drafted in the 10th round of the Women's Professional Fastpitch League in 1996, but chose to continue her education and pursue her college coaching career.

Fulmer Garfield resides in West Greenwich, RI and has two children, Addison and Tatum.