Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.
Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III has named Trev Alberts as his new director of athletics — an All-American College of Nebraska soccer participant who has served in AD roles in Nebraska for the previous 15 years.
Alberts, a former first-round NFL draft choose and ESPN broadcaster, has been the director of athletics on the College of Nebraska since 2021. He moved to Lincoln after serving 12 years because the AD at College of Nebraska at Omaha, the place he transitioned the athletic program from Division II to Division 1, whereas main an overhaul of its athletic services.
Welsh mentioned Alberts’s robust enterprise acumen, vary of expertise and management skills make him the best option to oversee A&M Athletics, which has greater than 650 student-athletes competing within the Southeastern Convention in 20 varsity sports activities.
“With Trev’s experience, the Aggies are poised to not solely excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but in addition efficiently navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports activities, commerce and student-athlete empowerment,” Welsh mentioned. “He has a profound understanding of the intricate enterprise of athletics and the evolving panorama of school athletics, notably within the realm of Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL).”
Welsh added: “I can’t think about a greater particular person to guide the Aggie Athletics program into the longer term.”
Ross Bjork, who was employed in 2019 as Texas A&M’s A&M’s athletic director, introduced in January that he was taking the identical function at Ohio State College. Inside per week, Welsh appointed David “Dave” Dunlap, a former scholar and previous chair of the twelfth Man Basis Board of Trustees, together with six different committee members, to conduct a nationwide seek for the following director of athletics.
On Wednesday afternoon, Alberts prolonged his appreciation to the committee and President Welsh, saying he’s trying ahead to collaborating with student-athletes and the twelfth Man.
“From my perspective, there has by no means been a extra consequential time in historical past for larger schooling and the evolving panorama of intercollegiate athletics,” Alberts mentioned. “Management issues now greater than ever earlier than. My curiosity in Texas A&M isn’t solely attributable to its prestigious popularity but in addition due to President Welsh’s compelling imaginative and prescient through which, I imagine, Athletics can play a small however necessary function in serving to Texas A&M obtain unprecedented success.”
Leaving his beloved alma mater shall be bittersweet, Alberts mentioned.
“I really wish to specific my gratitude to the College of Nebraska — the college and its followers have been and at all times shall be immensely necessary to me,” he mentioned. “Nebraska modified my life, and I’m grateful for the unbelievable 15 years I spent right here.”
Interim Athletic Director R.C. Slocum mentioned he’s trying ahead to seeing the place Alberts takes the A&M program.
“I wish to welcome Trev and his household to Aggieland,” mentioned Slocum, who’s the all-time winningest soccer coach in Texas A&M historical past and now serves as particular assistant to the A&M president. “I wish to thank President Welsh, and in addition the committee led by Dave Dunlap for his or her thorough and great efforts in choosing Trev Alberts to guide our student-athletes, coaches and employees.”
Whereas taking part in for Coach Tom Osborne’s Cornhuskers within the early Nineties, Alberts was acknowledged because the nation’s high school linebacker and named as Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner. He additionally acquired All-American honors. He was chosen within the first spherical because the fifth general choose within the 1994 NFL draft and performed for the Indianapolis Colts for 3 years earlier than accidents prompted him to retire.
Alberts transitioned with ease from athlete to broadcaster, initially working as a contributor at CNN and Sports activities Illustrated earlier than being employed at ESPN the place he was an analyst for School GameDay.
In 2009, he was named director of athletics for the College of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks program, the place many student-athletes discovered success not simply by way of competitors but in addition teachers. Alberts mentioned he focused on the student-athlete expertise, which resulted in constant collective semester grade level averages above 3.3 (on a 4.0 scale) for 18 consecutive semesters. He was lauded for increasing this system, whereas elevating non-public funds to pay for upgrades to services.
He was employed in 2021 because the athletic director on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln, which is the place he graduated from previous to taking part in his last semester of school soccer. His fundraising endeavors to enhance services continued to achieve success. A $450 million renovation of the soccer stadium is anticipated to interrupt floor this fall. Alberts additionally oversaw a complete, new 15-year multimedia rights settlement between the college and Playfly Sports activities, which is a sports activities advertising and marketing, multimedia and expertise chief. The deal is valued at $301 million over the lifetime of the contract.
Athletic achievements at Nebraska in 2022-23 embody High 10 finishes in NCAA wrestling, rifle, bowling, ladies’s outside monitor and discipline, males’s gymnastics and males’s indoor monitor and discipline. The Nebraska males’s monitor group captured the Massive 10 outside title underneath a first-year coach, whereas its new head soccer coach additionally was employed by Alberts in Fall 2022. “Volleyball Day in Nebraska” was an effort spearheaded by Alberts that drew 92,000 followers to Memorial Stadium, making it the biggest attendance ever for a ladies’s sporting occasion within the state.
In school rooms on the College of Nebraska, student-athletes thrived underneath Alberts initiatives. For the previous two years, they’ve had a school-record 95 % commencement charge throughout all sports activities.
Alberts and his spouse Angela have three youngsters – Chase (and his spouse, Cassie), Ashtynne and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.
A press convention shall be scheduled early subsequent week.