Hank Dickenson, the Mean Green's executive senior associate athletic director for community relations/business development, has been with North Texas Athletics since 1995.
Dickenson regularly represents the athletic department at local business events and civic meetings while assisting in the external business realm. Dickenson previously had oversight of the department's external units, including business development initiatives (marketing, sponsorship and promotions) and athletics communication, and has long assisted with certain development efforts such as event planning and naming rights for facilities. Dickenson led the department's efforts for the Apogee Stadium naming project which produced a 20-year, $20 million contract. He also solidified the naming rights for Apogee Stadium’s HUB Club and the Fit N’ Wise Sports Medicine center.
He originally designed the Mean Green Corporate Partner Program that has secured multi-million dollar applications inside Apogee Stadium as well as previous scoreboard renovations at Fouts Field, the Super Pit and the Mean Green Village. Under his direction, sponsorship revenues regularly exceeded $1.5 million annually, leading to the eventual purchase of the department’s marketing rights by Learfield/IMG.
Working alongside Dave Barnett, Dickenson provides color commentating (football) and play-by-play and color (basketball) on the Mean Green Sports Network. He is closing on 1,000 North Texas broadcasts. He teaches sports broadcasting as an adjunct professor at UNT, continuing a tradition set by Hall of Fame broadcaster Bill Mercer.
A fundraiser and community liaison, Dickenson was the recipient of UNT’s inaugural Bob Rogers Service and Community Engagement Award, the first Dr. Bettye Myers Service Award from the Salvation Army of Denton County, the City of Denton Chamber of Commerce's highest honor, the "Otis L. Fowler Award," and the Boy Scouts of America/Longhorn Council's Distinguished Citizen Award.
A past board chair of the Denton Chamber of Commerce, Dickenson served for seven years on the chamber's board of directors, and serves in various capacities with the following local organizations:
- Chair of the Denton Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Board of Directors
- City of Denton’s Downtown Task Force Board
- First State Bank Advisory Board
- Chairman of the Denton Noon Kiwanis Club's Fireworks Show
- Salvation Army of Denton County's Advisory Board of Directors
- Co-chair of the Serve Denton Capitol Campaign Committee as well as the vice-chair for the Serve Denton Board of Directors
A 1987 graduate of the University of Kansas, Dickenson earned a master's degree in sports administration from the United States Sports Academy in 1990. He and his wife, Missy, are parents of two boys, Dan, who plays college basketball at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, and Joe, a student at UNT.