Katie Meade - On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator - Football Support Staff

Katie Meade

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On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator

Katie Meade enters her second season as a full-time member of the Texas Tech football staff where she serves as a coordinator for on-campus recruiting.

Meade, a Lubbock native, assists in all areas of Texas Tech’s recruiting operation, namely assisting in the planning and execution of campus visits by prospective student-athletes. The position is a familiar one for Meade, who was a student assistant in the Texas Tech football office over the course of the 2021-24 seasons where she assisted with the execution of recruiting visits each summer and on gameday.

Meade was only a freshman when head coach Joey McGuire was hired as Texas Tech’s head coach. Since then, Meade has had a first-hand view of Texas Tech’s rise as one of the top personnel departments in the country as the Red Raiders have landed two top-25 recruiting classes and then the top transfer portal class in the country this past offseason.

Texas Tech landed its highest-ranked class ever during Meade’s first season as a full-time staff member. The Red Raiders closed the 2026 recruiting cycle with the Big 12’s highest-rated high school class and the second-ranked transfer portal class in the country. The high school class ranked as high as No. 13 by ESPN and No. 15 by 247Sports.

Meade earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management with a minor in general business from Texas Tech in December 2024. She was pursuing her master’s in sport management prior to her full-time hiring.