Ryan Litzinger serves as Assistant Athletics Director for Major Gifts, acting as a frontline fundraiser focused on athletic capital projects, endowments and other special initiatives.Â
Before arriving at Texas State in February 2023, Litzinger served as Associate Director of Development with the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Development group in Gainesville beginning in 2019. During that time, he transformed fundraising efforts in the J. Crayton Pruitt Biomedical Engineering department. This included securing the largest alumni gift in the history of the department, establishing the department’s largest graduate fellowship, a complete overhaul of the corporate partnerships program in biomedical engineering and the first major gift to the University of Florida from the state’s largest medical device manufacturer.
A native of Rogers, Arkansas, Litzinger got his start in collegiate athletics as a student-manager for men’s basketball at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. From there, he went on to become assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of West Georgia, where he helped the Wolves secure two Gulf South Conference championships in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, he joined the men’s basketball staff at Oklahoma City University as lead assistant men’s basketball coach, helping lead OCU to Sooner Athletic Conference Championships in 2018 and 2019. Litzinger also spent time as athletics annual giving coordinator at the University of West Georgia.
Litzinger received his bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Arkansas in 2003 and his master’s degree in public administration from the University of West Georgia in 2011.
