Russell Warren joined the WAC staff in August of 2023 as the senior associate commissioner, administration.
Warren arrived at the WAC conference office after spending the past nine years at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he originally joined the athletics department in February of 2014 as senior associate director for marketing and tickets and was promoted to deputy director of athletics in September of 2017. Warren oversaw all external athletics operations at UT Arlington, including marketing and promotions, communications and broadcast, facilities and game operations, development event activation, as well as oversight of the multimedia rights contractual execution. In addition, Warren had sport administration oversight for men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and volleyball.
Prior to working at UT Arlington, Warren was the chief operating officer and director of WNBA business operations for Spurs Sports & Entertainment from 2006-13, where he managed business operations including ticket sales and service, marketing and promotions, sponsorship sales, community and public relations for the WNBA ventures of the San Antonio Silver Stars. Warren also previously served as an assistant athletics director at Texas Tech University from 1996-2006, director of marketing and special events at the Southwest Conference from 1994-96, director of ticket operations at Baylor University in 1993-94 and spent time on the athletics ticketing staff at Southern Methodist University (1990-93) and as a marketing representative for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys (1989-90).
A Texas native originally hailing from Plains, Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations with minors in speech and business from Texas Tech.