Cameron Whicker is in his seventh year as Lincoln Memorial University’s assistant athletic director for internal operations after transitioning from coaching to administration in August of 2015.
In his role, Whicker oversees all internal operations of the LMU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, including coordinating game management, game operations, facility maintenance and home event scheduling. He also handles the fiscal and personnel management of the athletics department and assists with special projects. Whicker is highly involved in resource development and strategic planning for the department and was responsible for the growth of the L Club, the official giving organization of LMU Athletics, from 2015-19.
Serving as the department’s liaison to other areas on campus, such as student services, academic affairs and housing, Whicker helps ensure the student-athlete experience is first-class. Working in collaboration with the external side of the athletics department, Whicker advises and provides support to marketing, communications and corporate sponsorships.
As an assistant athletic director, Whicker is the sport supervisor for men’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, men’s and women’s cross country, and men’s and women’s bowling. He has served as tournament director of multiple NCAA Division II Regional Championships in Harrogate, including four men’s basketball regionals and the 2019 Division II Softball Southeast Super Regional.
During Whicker’s time as an athletics administrator, the Railsplitters have seen unprecedented success both on and off the court/field. LMU has won five South Atlantic Conference regular season championships and three tournament titles in men’s basketball, two women’s soccer regular season crowns, two SAC Tournament titles in baseball, a pair of softball regular season championships, two men’s golf SAC Championship titles, and a women’s basketball regular season championship. Additionally, track and field has produced two individual league champions while men’s volleyball has captured three consecutive Independent Volleyball Association (IVA) Tournament titles and women’s bowling won the 2018 East Coast Conference Championship. With a slew of athletic programs ranked among the nation’s top 25 every year, LMU has competed for a national title twice since 2016 in men’s basketball (2016) and men’s golf (2019).
Men’s basketball has secured three Division II Southeast Regional Championship crowns and reached three national semifinals, while men’s golf has made five-straight Division II South/Southeast Regional appearances and reached the national qualifying tournament twice. Softball has played for a spot in the Division II women’s college world series twice with two Southeast Regional final showings, and baseball went to three consecutive NCAA Southeast Regionals from 2017-19. Both women’s soccer (2018) and women’s basketball (2017) have been Division II Southeast Regional finalists with the Lady Railsplitters making the Southeast Regional semifinals on the pitch in 2019. Women’s volleyball has received two at-large bids to the Division II Southeast Regional and women’s bowling made the 2018 NCAA Championship.
LMU student-athletes have won a plethora of conference, regional and national awards, in addition to countless All-SAC, all-region and All-America accolades.
In the classroom, the Railsplitters’ department-wide grade point average has increased every year Whicker has been an assistant athletic director with LMU Athletics boasting a 3.32 GPA in 2020-21. With Whicker in his administrative role, the Railsplitters set a school record for SAC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selections for five consecutive years (2016-20) as LMU saw 188 student-athletes placed on the league’s academic honor roll following the unique 2019-20 academic year. Student-athletes have also garnered an abundance of academic plaudits, including an increasing number of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District® and CoSIDA Academic All-America® selections.
Prior to his career in athletics administration, Whicker served as an assistant coach on LMU’s men’s basketball staff for four seasons. During his time on the bench, Whicker aided the Railsplitters to three SAC regular season championships, a SAC Tournament title and four-straight Division II Southeast Regional Championship semifinals.
He was elevated to a full-time assistant prior to the 2012-13 season after spending 2011-12 as a graduate assistant coach. In his four seasons on LMU’s coaching staff, the Railsplitters went an impressive 109-18. After LMU won both the regular season and conference tournament in 2013-14, the Railsplitters made it three consecutive years with a SAC regular season championship in 2014-15. Securing just the second 30-win campaign in program history at the time and first since 1976-77, LMU finished 30-3 and hosted the Southeast Regional for the first time inside B. Frank “Tex” Turner Arena.
A 2011 graduate of High Point University, Whicker earned a Bachelor of Science in sports management before adding a Master of Education (M.Ed.) from LMU in 2013. As an undergraduate student at High Point, Whicker served the Panther men’s basketball team in various capacities, including manager, student assistant coach and video coordinator. As a senior, Whicker was a color analyst for the Big South Conference’s online broadcasts of men’s basketball games.
Whicker is a native of Huntersville, North Carolina, and currently resides in Harrogate, Tennessee.
