Richard Whitmore joined the athletics administration in 2008, being promoted to Senior Associate Athletics Director for Facilities and Operations before the 2011-12 school year. With 22 years of experience in collegiate athletics, “Whit” directs and oversees the planning and development, management, operations and maintenance of Dartmouth's sport and recreational buildings, facilities and fields. In addition, he supervises the administration of the men's soccer and men's and women's golf.

Before coming to Dartmouth, he spent nine years at Wesleyan University as the Associate Director of Athletics for Operations and Facilities. Prior to Wesleyan, Whitmore spent six years coaching college basketball and baseball at Kenyon College and Daniel Webster College. A 1990 graduate of Brown, Whitmore earned his master's from Wesleyan in 2011.

He lives in Hanover with his wife Kathleen and daughters, Allison and Melissa.