Hunter Roberts joined Purdue baseball as the program's supervisor of operations in August 2022. He came to West Lafayette from Central Arkansas, where he served in a dual role as the director of baseball operations and athletic ticket manager for the primary team sports. The 2023-24 school year will be his second with the Boilermakers.
Roberts added baseball operations to his duties with UCA Athletics in October 2020. He took a lead role in the program’s budget and the travel arrangements, including hotels, meals, flights and buses. As a liaison between the team and the public, he was also was the lead contact for ticket allotments and facility arrangements for practices while assisting with social media. As the athletic ticket manager since March 2019, he worked with football, men’s and women’s basketball, and baseball as the gameday lead for both tickets and security staff.
Roberts earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Missouri State and a master’s in sports management from Central Arkansas. He worked with the Springfield Cardinals (Double-A affiliate) during the 2016 Minor League Baseball season and Missouri State baseball during the 2018 college season. As an external affairs intern at Evansville during the 2018-19 school year, he was in line to assist with UE baseball that spring before accepting the offer to join the ticket staff at UCA in March of that year.
“This opportunity at Purdue is a dream and I’m excited to make the best of it,” Roberts says. “I am thankful to be a part of an amazing coaching staff and a school with strong traditions. I’m a guy who keeps the grinder mentality and wants the best for everyone at Alexander Field.”