Carlie Irsay-Gordon is the vice chair and co-owner of the

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. She led the team from 2014.

Biography

Irsay-Gordon attended

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, where she studied religious studies and geoscience. She also rode competitively until the age of 20, on a horse named London Times. Irsay-Gordon attended

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. She trained as a clinical psychologist but did not complete her boards. Irsay-Gordon first worked for the Colts in the ticket office and was subsequently involved in the marketing department and the strategies used by the sales team and ticket office. Irsay-Gordon has represented the team at ownership meetings since 2004. In 2012, Irsay-Gordon and her sisters Casey and Kalen became vice chairs and owners of the Colts. Irsay's father,

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, has stated that he intends the team to entirely pass to his daughters. Irsay-Gordon was then named as chair of the Colts in March 2014 shortly after Jim Irsay was arrested and entered a rehabilitation facility for drug use. The ''Indianapolis Business Journal'' named her to their "Forty Under 40" list in 2015. In 2016, Irsay-Gordon joined the NFL Digital Media Committee as the only active female member of the committee. Before the

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, Irsay-Gordon later recalled that she and Kalen Irsay-Jackson began to plan to focus the Colts' charitable attention on a single initiative, and selected a program on mental health, which became known as Kicking the Stigma. This launched in May 2021.

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