Mitch Barnhart

Mitch Barnhart
Barnhart in 2018
Current position
TitleAthletic director
TeamKentucky
ConferenceSEC
Biographical details
Born (1959-08-27) August 27, 1959 (age 65)
Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Alma materOttawa University (BA)
Ohio University (MS)

Mitch Barnhart (born August 27, 1959) is the athletics director for the Kentucky Wildcats athletics program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Barnhart was hired by the university in 2002 succeeding Larry Ivy.[1] Barnhart served in the same capacity at Oregon State University from 1998 to 2002. He is the university's tenth athletics director. In August 2023 Barnhart signed an extension on his contract which will keep him at Kentucky until 2028.[2]

  1. ^ "Mitch Barnhart named UK Athletics Director After Four Years in Oregon State Post". University of Kentucky Public Relations. 15 July 2002. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  2. ^ "UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart signs contract extension, keeping him in Lexington until 2028". WDRB. 26 August 2023. Archived from the original on 26 August 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.