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Ryan Gaines

Title:
Chief of Staff

Phone No.: (405) 325-8354
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Ryan Gaines is in his 20th season as OU baseball’s director of operations, recently taking on the title Chief of Staff in 2025. Gaines completed his first season on the staff in 2006 after returning to OU on August 1, 2005.

Gaines is responsible for the day-to-day operations off the field, including team travel, serving as a liaison with the training room, equipment room, media relations, strength and conditioning, athletics administration and the Sooner Baseball Family. He is also the camp director for the Oklahoma baseball camps.

The Harrah, Okla., native worked as a student trainer for the University of Oklahoma baseball and football teams from the fall of 1991 to spring of 1995.

In addition, he was the team trainer for the Peninsula Oilers baseball team in Kenai, Alaska, for three years, including the 1993 and 1994 seasons when the Oilers won back-to-back NBC World Series championships.

The Gaines File
Hometown	Harrah, Okla.
High School	Harrah High School, 1991
College	Oklahoma, 1995
Family	wife, Kate daughter, Hannah son, Gabe

In 1996, he landed at Oral Roberts University where he served as the baseball team’s administrative assistant in 1996 and 1997. Prior to his stint in Norman, he worked in the sporting goods industry as a successful team salesman from August of 1997 to July of 2005.

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Gaines received his bachelor’s degree in health and sports science in 1996.

Gaines and his wife, Kate, have two children, Hannah and Gabe.