Pat Hickman

Pat Hickman joined the Lobo Football program in December of 2023, and he serves as the Chief of Staff and Director of Player Personnel for UNM. He comes to New Mexico after a two-year stint at BYU as director of operations and director of recruiting.

This will be Hickman’s 17th year working with Bronco Mendenhall.

With New Mexico, Hickman oversees all facets of roster management for the program, and he works hand-in-hand with the director of scouting in planning recruiting visits and roster management. He serves as a liaison with many of Lobo Football’s corporate partners for recruiting events.

He had two stints at BYU, serving as director of operations and director of player development and high school relations from 2006-15, and as director of operations and director of recruiting from 2022-23. Hickman in his most recent time with BYU, oversaw many of the operation line items for budgeting and recruiting, including setting up visits and working with gift-in-kind partners for weekend visits.

His first stint with BYU coincided with Bronco Mendenhall becoming the head coach at BYU, and he served that entire time as director of operations and director of player development. Along with handling budgeting, working with scheduling, practice planning and all facets of travel, Hickman oversaw many of the developmental duties with the roster including academics and community service.

Hickman followed Mendenhall to Virginia and served as the director of player development for two seasons (2016-17) and director of scouting (2018- 2021). As such he oversaw roster management and worked with the operations director on recruiting visits as well as overseeing many facets of Virginia’s community service programs.

Hickman got his start in college athletics administration in 2002, starting a four-year run at Boise State in facility management and operations, helping Boise State host several NCAA events.

Hickman graduated with a bachelor’s of science degree in health promotion from Boise State in 2001 and a master’s in athletic administration from Idaho State in 2005. He is married to the former Celeste Fruean and they have two children Jared and Malia.