Amy Villa is in her 30th year in the athletics media relations department at San José State for the 2023-24 school year and 31st year in the profession. Villa currently serves as the director of athletics media relations and handles all publicity for the volleyball, women's gymnastics, beach volleyball and nationally-ranked women's golf teams and is the secondary contact for men's basketball assisting with credentialing and gamedays. At some point during her time, she has handled publicity for nearly every sport at San José State.
Villa started her tenure at San José State during the 1993-94 school year as an intern. After a two-year internship, she worked the 1995-96 school year in the University of Minnesota Women's Sports Information Department. Villa handled the publicity for the 1995 Big Ten Champion women's soccer team, NCAA regional qualifier women's gymnastics team and the NCAA Tournament participant softball team. She returned to San José State for the 1996-97 school year as the assistant sports information director and was promoted to associate director in 2003.
During her tenure at San José State, Villa has worked various NCAA tournaments and Bowl Games. She was the media coordinator for the 1999 and 2000 Women's College Cups, the assistant media coordinator for the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second Rounds at HP Pavilion, 1997 NCAA Men's West Regional and the assistant media coordinator for the 2000-03 Silicon Valley Football Classics. Villa also worked the 1999 NCAA Women's Final Four, the 2002, 2007, 2010 and 2017 NCAA Men's West Regionals and various other NCAA, Mountain West and WAC Tournaments.
An active member of CoSIDA, Villa is a member of the Academic All-America Committee and is one of just 170 members that votes for all the CoSIDA Academic All-Americans. She is also a member of the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM).
Villa, a 1993 graduate of Capital University (Bexley, Ohio), received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications. She got her start in sports information as a student at Capital as she worked all four years in the department and traveled with the women's basketball team to the 1993 NCAA Division III Final Four where the Crusaders finished as the national runners-up.
Away from the office, Villa was active with the Oak Grove High School Band Boosters as the student account coordinator for three school years. Previously, she raised money for Hayes Elementary School in San Jose as the school's Box Tops Coordinator (2011-14) and was responsible for raising between $1,500-$2,000 yearly for Hayes.
A native of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, the former Amy Eberhard is married to Derrick Villa. Derrick, a 1992 San José State graduate, spent 22 years as a news anchor at KLIV, 1590 AM (the former flagship station for Spartan football & men's basketball). He assists on the football, men's and women's basketball and volleyball stat crews and is the voice of Spartan women's gymnastics. The couple has a daughter, Grace, who is a senior at San José State after graduating from Oak Grove High School during the pandemic. In her spare time, Villa enjoys showing dairy cattle.