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BYU’s director of athletics Tom Holmoe introduces the school’s new men’s head basketball coach Kevin Young at an announcement event in the Marriott Center in Provo on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe will retire at the conclusion of the 2024-25 athletic season, BYU announced in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
“His tireless work to champion BYU helped lead to BYU joining the Big 12 Conference in 2023. His creative football scheduling through an era of independence, making key head coaching hires in multiple sports, being named an NACDA Athletic Director of the Year and numerous other awards and accomplishments will long be remembered,” BYU spokesperson Jon McBride said in a statement. “For those who knew Holmoe well, more impressive was his love and care for the more than 4,000 student-athletes who competed at BYU under his watch and his commitment to the unique values and mission of BYU and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
Since assuming the position of athletic director in 2005, Holmoe has overseen four national championships, 133 conference championships and more than 350 All-America selections at BYU, according to the school’s press release.
Holmoe played a key role in navigating BYU football’s move to independence in 2011, a risky choice that paid off when the school received an invitation to join the Big 12 in 2021.
In order to make football independence a successful venture, Holmoe helped to orchestrate a lucrative broadcasting partnership with ESPN along with placing BYU’s olympic sports in the West Coast Conference for a decade before finding a permanent Power Conference home in the Big 12.
Additionally, Holmoe made a number of laudable coaching hires during his tenure, including Bronco Mendenhall, Dave Rose, Kalani…
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Publish date : 2025-02-11 22:59:00
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