Greg Tipton - Staff Directory

Greg Tipton

Title:
Chief Operating Officer
Email:
Phone:
(405) 325-8379

A 36-year veteran of the Sooner staff, Greg Tipton serves as the Sooners Athletics Chief Operating Officer. His previous roles include Assistant Athletics Director (2007–2011), Associate Athletics Director (2011–2015), Senior Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations (2015–2021), and Executive Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations (2021–2025). In his current position, he oversees business operations, capital project planning, risk management, event and game operations, equipment operations, facility enhancements and maintenance, environmental design, and grounds for OU Athletics. He is also the primary sport administrator for the OU baseball program.

A Fairland, Oklahoma, native, Tipton joined the department in 1991 as a student equipment manager for football. He became assistant football equipment manager in 1995 and football equipment manager in 1996. In 2000, he was promoted to Director of Athletics Equipment, overseeing departmental purchasing and the execution of footwear, apparel, and equipment agreements.

Tipton helped implement a web-based inventory control system to improve accountability for OU Athletics equipment, apparel, and footwear. He also served on university negotiating teams that secured multi-year, multimillion-dollar apparel and footwear agreements in 2003, 2008, 2014, and, most recently, 2017 with Jordan and Nike, Inc.

During a career that has included 29 bowl games, Greg has served as a lead coordinator for OU’s bowl operations. He also previously served on the Rose Bowl Game Advisory Group and the College Football Playoff National Championship Advisory Group. Tipton has played a key role in managing or supporting more than $400 million in OU Athletics capital improvement projects. These include the 2009 football operations and locker room renovations; renovations to McCasland Field House, the men’s and women’s basketball locker rooms, and the women’s basketball offices; Phases I and II of L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park; baseball and softball field replacement projects; and, most recently, served on the project leadership team for the $160 million GFOMS south end zone project. He currently oversees all athletics capital planning projects and the athletics project management teams, including those currently supporting the Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium project design and development, Kimrey Family Stadium project, and the OU Experience Center. Since 2024, his team has successfully completed Love’s Field, Viersen Gymnastics Center, Headington Family Tennis Center, and Ransom Golf Training Facility in partnership with national architects, contractors, and OU A&E Services.

Greg earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary English education from OU in 1995 and a master’s degree in human relations from OU in 1998. He also previously served as an adjunct instructor in OU’s Michael F. Price College of Business.

Tipton is a member of the Varsity O Association and the Gamma-Kappa chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity at OU, where he serves as assistant chapter advisor for recruitment and operations. He was inducted into the Gamma-Kappa Chapter of Kappa Sigma Alumni Hall of Fame in October 2024.

His son, Parker, graduated from OU in 2023 and serves as Assistant Director of Athletics Equipment at the University of Arizona. Parker lives in Tucson with his wife, Emmy, and their daughter, June. Tipton’s daughter, Rachel, is pursuing a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree at the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry.