Amanda Workman has served as the Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics since March 2021. Under her leadership the department has seen a 60% increase in the student-athlete population as well as increased student-athlete GPA’s and graduation rates.
Workman led the charge in transitioning the Lobos from DIII to DII. Part of this process included securing an invitation to join the Lone Star Conference and creating a strategic plan to lead the Lobos through the three-year transition period. The department is currently completing Provisional Year Three.
Additionally, as a student-athlete-centric AD, Workman has developed an interview protocol that explores the graduating student-athletes’ experience as they transition out of intercollegiate athletics and how the transition impacts their identity. The data collected in these interviews is utilized to better serve current student-athletes during their time as Lobos and helps to prepare them for life outside of athletics.
Before joining the Lobos, Workman served as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for External Relations at West Texas A&M University for 11 years.
While at WTAMU, Workman developed many capital campaigns, fostered many corporate sponsorships, created branding guidelines and marketing campaigns, participated in many national coaching searches, and rebranded all athletic facilities. Perhaps, most notable was her work on both the construction and fundraising for Buffalo Stadium, WTAMU’s on-campus football stadium, named the top DII stadium, which opened in the fall of 2019.
Workman attended West Texas A&M University and received both her bachelor’s (2006) and master’s (2009) degrees in psychology as well as a doctoral degree (2025) in educational leadership in higher education with an emphasis in rural education. Her research, The Essence of Identity Limbo: A Phenomenological Investigation of College Athletes’ Transition to Non-Athletic Identities, explored the impact of transition on athletic identity. She hopes that her research will help to better inform practices for student-athletes in the future. Workman became a part-time instructor in the psychology department in the spring of 2007 and continues to teach on an as-needed basis.
Workman and her husband Jarrett Vickers are originally from Post, Texas. The couple now resides in Alpine, Texas, with their son Jak.
