Brendan Dwyer

Brendan Dwyer joined the Vanderbilt Athletics staff as senior associate athletic director for capital projects, facilities and events in January 2025.

In this role, Dwyer will serve as supervisor of the areas of facilities, event management, championships, capital projects, and venue management. Those duties will include working closely with department leadership to plan and execute facility development, including space planning, facility master planning, renovations and capital projects as well as leading the development execution of policies and procedures relative to Vanderbilt Athletics facilities.

Dwyer has spent the previous two-and-a-half years at Memphis serving as associate athletic director of facilities and capital projects, where he has worked directly with Populous, Barton Malow and MFA while overseeing more than $200 million in renovations to Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. He was the department’s representative on additional athletics facilities capital projects including a renovation of FedEx Park Avron Fogelman Field, and had direct oversight of all athletic game operations, facility maintenance and athletic grounds while supervising a staff of seven full-time employees. Dwyer served as sport administrator for the Tiger baseball program in that time as well.

Before joining the staff at Memphis, he was senior director of facilities and events for nearly three years at UAB, where he helped design a new basketball practice facility and baseball/softball clubhouse for the Blazers. He was also responsible for oversight of six full-time staff members, the operations of all athletic facilities and grounds, game day operations and on-campus athletic concessions during that time.

Dwyer was at Ole Miss prior to moving to Birmingham, serving as arena manager for The Pavilion for two-and-a-half years before earning a promotion to assistant athletic director of athletic facilities. From 2011-16, he was associate director of event manager at Georgia while Dwyer was operations manager at American for two years prior.

Dwyer graduated from East Carolina with a degree in communications in 2005, earning a master’s degree in sport management from the school two years later. He and his wife, Gwen, have two daughters: Alaina and Kendal.