BYU Athletic Director Tom Holmoe To Retire After 2024-25 Season
Feb 11, 2025, 3:50 PM | Updated: Feb 12, 2025, 12:07 pm
PROVO, Utah – It’s the end of an era for BYU athletics as Tom Holmoe is set to retire after the 2024-25 season.
Holmoe announced the decision on Tuesday. The former BYU football defensive back has been BYU’s athletic director for 20 years.
BYU’s athletic season concludes this May.
Breaking: BYU announces that AD Tom Holmoe will retire after the 2024-25 athletic year.
— Mitch Harper (@Mitch_Harper) February 11, 2025
Tom Holmoe to retire after 2024-25 season
His crowning achievement under his direction was landing BYU athletics an invitation to the Big 12 Conference.
During Holmoe’s tenure as BYU athletic director, the university won four national championships and 133 conference regular-season and postseason championships.
Holmoe won athletic director of the year in the 2020-21 season for his work in helping BYU football piece together a season amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic.
After taking over as the athletic director in 2005, Holmoe hired BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall and current football coach Kalani Sitake. He also was the athletic director for men’s basketball hirings with Dave Rose, Mark Pope, and current head coach Kevin Young.
Led BYU into the Big 12 Conference
BYU was a member of three conferences under Holmoe’s watch as Athletic Director. The Cougars were in the Mountain West Conference, the West Coast Conference, and the Big 12 Conference.
BYU will hold a made-for-tv press conference event where Holmoe will “address the media and Cougar Nation” on Wednesday at 10 a.m. (MST) on BYUtv.
Mitch Harper is a BYU Insider for sports.ksl.com and hosts the Cougar Tracks Podcast (SUBSCRIBE) and Cougar Sports Saturday (12–3 p.m.) on KSL Newsradio. Follow Mitch’s coverage of BYU in the Big 12 Conference on X: @Mitch_Harper.
