Mitch Barnhart
Barnhart in 2018 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Athletic director |
| Team | Kentucky |
| Conference | SEC |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | August 27, 1959 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Ottawa University (BA) Ohio University (MS) |
Mitch Barnhart (born August 27, 1959) is an American college athletics administrator. He is the athletic director for the Kentucky Wildcats athletics program at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Barnhart was hired by the university in 2002 succeeding Larry Ivy. Barnhart served in the same capacity at Oregon State University from 1998 to 2002. He is the university's tenth athletics director. In August 2023 Barnhart signed an extension on his contract which will keep him at Kentucky until 2028.