All About Carlie, Casey and Kalen

Jim Irsay’s children are continuing his legacy.

Following the death of the Indianapolis Colts owner and CEO in May 2025, ownership of the NFL team transitioned to his three daughters: Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt and Kalen Jackson. Irsay welcomed his children with his ex-wife, Meg Coyle.

The sisters had previously served as vice chairs/owners of the Colts since 2012, but stepped into new roles after their dad’s passing, with Irsay-Gordon becoming the team’s owner and CEO, Foyt the owner and executive vice president and Jackson the owner and chief brand officer and president of the Indianapolis Colts Foundation, per the team.

According to Irsay-Gordon, the former owner was “so proud” to see his daughters’ involvement in the franchise and it was his “foremost wish” to keep the NFL team in their family.

“Probably his biggest dream, other than having a big family and having grandkids and being with us, was to see us do what we’re doing right now,” Jackson said in a press conference after she and her siblings were named to their new roles. “And I think the hardest thing about that is that his biggest dream and goal he always knew he wouldn’t be able to be here to see.”

Here’s everything to know about Jim Irsay’s daughters, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt and Kalen Jackson.

Carlie Irsay-Gordon

Irsay-Gordon is the oldest of the late Colts owner’s daughters.

Long before becoming CEO, the future Colts owner interned in many of the organization’s departments, per the team. Irsay-Gordon, who has an undergraduate degree in religious studies from Skidmore College, joined the team as a vice president in 2008 while completing her coursework towards a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, according to her page on the Colts’ website.

At a press conference about the Colts’ ownership transition in 2025, Irsay-Gordon said she wanted fans to know that she and her siblings had “spent decades in our family business learning every aspect of our organization under our dad’s leadership.”

“It was sometimes trial by fire, and I’m forever grateful for the invaluable experience that I’ve gained,” she added.

Irsay-Gordon has become known for taking notes and wearing a headset on the sidelines — a practice she does to learn more about the organization.

“I need to be able to say, ‘Is this person full of BS? Do they even know what they’re talking about?’ ” she told the Colts website in June 2025. “You could say, ‘Oh, that person ran that route wrong.’ When you learn to find, ‘Oh, someone tagged the wrong wide receiver, and it wasn’t really the player’s fault — it was the person that called it.’ I think that’s been very valuable, because it also helps us be able to know where do we need to make tweaks, what resources do we need, what do we need to fix.”

She advises “anyone else that has to pay coaches and GMs millions and millions of dollars” to wear headsets, adding that “it helps you make a less expensive mistake, potentially.”

Irsay-Gordon is married to Zach Gordon, with whom she shares three children, according to the organization.

Casey Foyt

Foyt, now the owner and executive vice president of the Indianapolis Colts, is the middle sister.

Like Irsay-Gordon, Foyt grew up around the team — in high school, she worked at the front desk answering phones, she said during their June 2025 press conference. After she and her sisters assumed ownership of the Colts in 2025, Foyt said she was grateful that her dad let his daughters be “a part of the organization from such a young age,” which she called “priceless.”

Foyt has a degree in sports marketing from Indiana University. After graduating from college, she went on to work for the NFL in London and helped plan the league’s first regular season game outside of North America in 2007, according to the organization. She is also credited with helping to revitalize the Indianapolis Colts Women’s Organization, per the team.

Foyt, Jackson and their father have even made their support of the Colts permanent — they all have the same horseshoe tattoo, she shared with the team’s website.

Following the Colts’ first regular-season win with the Irsay siblings at the helm, Foyt told NBC News Now that her dad always gave them “the strength and the courage to know and believe” in themselves and believe that they could “do this one day.”

“And this is the day,” she added.

Foyt is married to Indianapolis 500 veteran Anthony J. Foyt IV, who also works for the Colts organization as a scouting assistant. The couple has five kids.

Kalen Jackson

Jackson is the youngest of Irsay’s kids. She didn’t join the Colts until 2010, the same year she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management and marketing from Indiana University.

“I always joke I’m the only true born Hoosier out of our family, but we’re all Hoosiers, and we love being here,” she remarked in the June 2025 press conference. “We love the people, we love the city and I really don’t think there’s anywhere else like it.”

Although she “grew up in the league when there weren’t any women in the locker room,” Jackson told NBC News Now that her father would remind her and her sisters that they belonged.

“It was bizarre, almost, to have our dad bring us in, because there were no women trainers, there were no women coaches,” she continued. “He was the one reminding us, ‘You deserve to be here. Don’t forget that.’ ”

Jackson is an advocate for mental health. According to the Colts’ website, she currently leads the initiative Kicking The Stigma, which works to raise awareness about mental health and end the stigma associated with mental illnesses. Since launching in 2020, Kicking The Stigma has committed more than $31 million to nonprofits expanding treatment and research.

Jackson thanked her late father as she accepted the ESPY for Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year in July 2025. In her acceptance speech, she quoted a line that her dad “always” used to say: “Don’t you dare give up 5 seconds before the miracle.”

Jackson and her husband Boyd Jackson have two daughters.