Amanda Workman has been promoted to Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics at Sul Ross State University, Apr. 1. She had been the Athletic Director for the Lobos since March 2021. After four years of leading the Lobos, the department has seen a 60% increase in the student-athlete population.
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 One.
Additionally, as a student-athlete-centric AD, Workman has developed two programs to engage student-athletes as individuals including a leadership and lifestyle curriculum that focuses on accountability practices and life skills and a Senior Seminar, which focuses on transitioning graduating seniors out of being athletes and into working professionals.
The program focuses on helping athletes develop an identity outside of athletics as well as career development opportunities like resume writing and mock interviews.
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 and is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership with an emphasis on rural education. 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.
