Kevin Albarez enters his fourth year as Assistant Sports Information Director at Southern University, where he started in 2020.
He serves as the primary media relations contact for volleyball, bowling and softball and is the secondary contact for men’s and women cross country, men’s & women’s indoor and outdoor track & field.
Albarez's sports information duties include maintaining the athletics website, updating the athletics social media pages, writing press releases, game previews, and game recaps and handling media-related obligations, such as assisting with credential requests and interviews for student-athletes, coaches, and administrators. He oversees numerous game-day operations as well, namely statistics, public address announcer, live statistical feeds and photographic information for all athletic events.
Albarez has spent the previous 10 years as a coach and teacher at Woodlawn High School. In his time at Woodlawn, Albarez has coached men’s basketball, football, softball, and baseball. He also teaches geometry and sports marketing. He was also responsible for maintaining the facilities, creating gameday graphics, video coordinator, and producing live streams of all sports.
Albarez has also spent his previous nine years on the stat crew at Louisiana State University. Albarez got his time started at LSU by interning in the Sports Information Department during the 2011-2012 seasons. During this time, he was responsible for assisting in the coverage of football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, and softball. All those teams made it to postseason play, including football making it to the National Championship game and softball making it to the Women’s College World Series.
A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Albarez earned his bachelor’s degree in Sports Administration from LSU in 2011 and his Master of Art in Teaching in 2013.
