Kyle Grooms, who has spent the past eight years as director of football operations at The University of Tulsa, has been promoted to the position of associate athletics director for internal operations, said director of athletics Dr. Derrick Gragg.

Grooms, a 2008 TU graduate, has been responsible for the football team’s daily operations, practice scheduling and team travel arrangements during his eight seasons with the Golden Hurricane football program.

As an undergraduate student, Grooms was a four-year letterman for the Tulsa football program, where he was a member of four Hurricane bowl games. Grooms came to Tulsa as a walk-on athlete in 2003 and was put on scholarship in his junior season. He played in 44 career games and was a captain of the 2007 team.