PROVO -- Brigham Young University Director of Athletics Tom Holmoe has announced that Brian Santiago has been promoted to Senior Associate Athletics Director.
For the past four years Santiago has served as an associate athletics director over operations. He is responsible for game management for football and basketball, administers the basketball, baseball, men's volleyball, softball, track, cross country, golf, and the strength and conditioning complex. He also oversees sports medicine, championship hosting, the athletic car dealership program, and department tickets.
“Brian has shown a strong loyalty to BYU and our student-athletes, coaches and teams,” Holmoe said. “His efforts to assist our leadership team in aligning our efforts in Athletics with the University and the Church have been a big part of our recent success.”
Santiago earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fresno State in 1995, and then received his MBA from BYU's Marriott School of Management in 2001.
A graduate of Provo High, Santiago was part of the 1987 state basketball championship team. He later went on to UVSC where he was All-Conference and All-Region in basketball and baseball. He then went on to Fresno State where he led the WAC in assists and three-point shooting percentage — finishing second in the nation from the three-point arc at 50 percent. Following college, he spent three years playing professional basketball for the Arecibo Capitanes of the Puerto Rican Superior League, and was named to the pre-selection Olympic team for Puerto Rico. His brothers, Kevin and Mark, played basketball for BYU.
Before being named associate AD, Santiago was the director of basketball operations for four years under Steve Cleveland at BYU.
Santiago served an LDS Church mission to the Dominican Republic. He is married to the former Kimberly Blackburn. They have three sons, McKay (12), Colson (10), and Jaxon (6), and one daughter Whitney (2).