Indianapolis – The Indianapolis Colts have announced Isabel Diaz and Ashleigh Prugh as the Harriet P. Irsay Fellows for the 2025 season.
Diaz, the inaugural Harriet P. Irsay Fellow in 2023, will continue to assist with special teams. She participated in the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the Washington Commanders during the 2022 offseason and training camp. Diaz assisted primarily with the defensive backs. She has also participated in the NFL Women's Forum multiple times at the NFL Scouting Combine. Prior to the NFL, Diaz served in a variety of roles at Oklahoma State. She was an undergraduate assistant for the defense from 2021-23, where she assisted with the scout team, created practice scripts, helped with game planning and charted plays on game day. From 2019-2021, Diaz was a videographer for the football and women's soccer programs. She filmed game days for both teams as well as practice for football. Diaz earned her bachelor's degree in sport & coaching science with a minor in sport management from Oklahoma State.
Prugh will assist in analytics in football operations. For the last two years, she served as a data science intern at Sumer Sports. Prugh participated in the NFL's Big Data Bowl Mentorship Program in 2024-25. A Division I student-athlete, she was a member of the cross country and track teams at Georgia Tech (2024-25) and Xavier (2021-24). Prugh is currently pursuing her master's degree in analytics from Georgia Tech. From 2022-23, she was a research assistant at Xavier while earning her bachelor's degree in psychology with a double minor in computer science and statistics.
The Harriet P. Irsay Fellowship for Women in Football Program affords a fellowship in a football operations department or coaching in which women have been historically underrepresented. The fellowship is named in honor of Harriet P. Irsay, the late mother of Colts Owner & CEO Jim Irsay. The third-year program provides the Colts with access to high potential candidates to contribute to their football operation. The goal is to create a pipeline of qualified employees that have successfully completed this program to be considered for future more senior positions with Indianapolis and other NFL clubs.
Qualified candidates for the position will be evaluated and interviewed by a selection committee composed of the Irsay family, General Manager Chris Ballard, Head Coach Shane Steichen and other members of the Colts football operations team.
