Susan Hardcastle is in her 14th year at ACU and seventh year on the ACU Athletics staff in 2020-21 where she serves as the executive assistant to the director of athletics and chief of staff.

She began her career at ACU in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science’s Peanut Lab in 2000 before teaching music in the Abilene Independent School District and returning to ACU to work in Intramural Sports in 2004.

After working as “intramural mom” for seven years, she was asked to join ACU Athletics as an administrative assistant to the coaching staff. Hardcastle became executive assistant to the director of athletics and was named chief of staff in 2016.

She served as chair of the Staff Senate in 2015, as well as in various committees and focus groups across campus.

Susan is married to Jack Hardcastle, the family minister at Hillcrest Church of Christ, and they have worked as partners in ministry since 1987. They have been married 30 years and have two children: Joshua, a youth minister for the Heritage Church of Christ in Keller, Texas, married to Whitney (both graduates of ACU); and Jenae, a student at Lubbock Christian University. They have one grandson, Knox, born to Joshua and Whitney in 2014.