Harry Ischiropoulos joined the Garnet in 2008 as assistant coach. The team promptly won the Centennial Conference Championship that season, and he has been instrumental in the program's success ever since. He began his soccer career in Thessaloniki, Greece in the youth systems of Iraklis FC and national selection teams. After high school, he arrived in New York to pursue his college education while playing semi-professional soccer for clubs in New York, California and Alabama. He was a member of Alabama's Olympic festival team. Since arriving in Philadelphia, he has played with several local clubs, most notably with the Radnor United men's club that has won the National Veteran's Cup, the Keystone indoor games and toured England.
Ischiropoulos, a graduate of Wagner College ('84) and New York Medical College ('90), is a Joseph Stokes Jr. Investigator and the Gisela and Dennis Alter Research Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
Ischiropoulos is primarily involved with technical player development and tactical analysis of the Garnet’s matches. In the summer of 2011, he was the primary organizer of the team’s outstanding pre-season training trip to Crete and Athens, Greece. Ischiropoulos lives in Nether Providence with his wife, Patti and sons, Dean and Alex.
