Ryan Reynolds is in his 13th year working in the athletics department in Tucson. In the summer of 2021, he was named the Assistant Athletic Director for Administration and Operations.
Originally hired as an administrative assistant for men’s basketball for the 2009-10 season, he was promoted to the Director of Basketball Operations in May 2010. He was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Men’s Basketball Operations in July 2019.
During his tenure with the men’s basketball program in Tucson, Reynolds controlled the program’s internal operations. He has overseen major renovations to McKale Center, the weight room addition to Richard Jefferson Gymnasium, the 2010 men’s basketball locker room renovation and the McKale Center hallway project.
Reynolds was also responsible for scheduling the Wildcats’ non-conference games, working hard to annually construct a challenging non-conference schedule. He was also the program’s compliance liaison, director of the Sean Miller Basketball Camp, liaison to CATS Academics, budget manager and team travel coordinator.
He has been part of seven NCAA Tournament teams at Arizona, with UA advancing to the Sweet 16 five times and Elite Eight three times with Reynolds on staff. The program has also captured five Pac-12 regular-season titles and three Pac-12 Tournament crowns during his time at UA.
Reynolds joined the Arizona basketball family after spending the 2008-09 campaign as a member of the Wake Forest men’s basketball staff, where he was the Demon Deacons’ assistant coordinator of basketball operations under then head coach Dino Gaudio. He was responsible for assisting with team travel and meals, scheduling and additional logistics within the basketball office.
In his lone season in Winston-Salem, Wake Forest opened the season 16-0, earning the nation’s No. 1 ranking, before finishing the year with a 24-7 record.
Prior to his stint at Wake Forest, Reynolds spent the previous five years working under both Sean Miller and Thad Matta at Xavier University. Four of those seasons were as an undergraduate student manager and the last was as a Graduate Program Assistant.
Reynolds was part of four NCAA Tournament teams during his tenure at Xavier, including XU’s Elite Eight squads in 2004 and 2008. The Musketeers won the Atlantic-10 regular season or tournament title four times in that span.
The Cincinnati native graduated from Xavier University in 2007 with a bachelor’s in sports management and a business minor. He earned a Master of Education in sport administration from Xavier in 2008.
