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Trev Alberts

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Director of Athletics (Football)

A veteran administrator and College Football Hall of Famer, Trev Alberts was hired as Texas A&M’s Director of Athletics on March 13, 2024, after a successful three-year stint at his alma mater, the University of Nebraska.

Alberts and his business and leadership acumen, along with the leadership at Texas A&M, has positioned the Aggies to take advantage of the many changes in collegiate athletics.

Respected nationally, Alberts was one of eight Athletics Directors to serve on the implementation committee for the new College Sports Commission.

In his first year, Alberts made significant changes to the department to cut expenses while working to become more efficient and effective.

In addition, he championed a new landmark 15-year, $515 guaranteed multimedia rights agreement with Playfly Sports which is the largest multimedia rights deal in college athletics history, guaranteeing $34 million annually. The partnership also includes a comprehensive strategy to leverage all Texas A&M assets to grow fair market value NIL for Aggie student-athletes.

In a little over one year at the helm of the Aggies, Alberts has overseen two national championships-- women’s tennis in 2024 and men’s outdoor track & field in 2025; along with four Southeastern Conference championships-- women’s tennis in 2024 and 2025, men’s indoor track & field in 2025 and softball’s SEC Tournament crown in 2025. Women’s tennis played for another national championship in 2025 while the Aggie baseball team competed for the national title in 2024.

As the athletics year wrapped up in 2023-24, Texas A&M posted a sixth-place finish in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings and finished 2024-25 in 15^th place.

Several teams posted top-10 finishes in 2024-25 with men’s outdoor track & field bringing home the national championship while the women’s tennis team competed for the national championship. Others included women’s outdoor track & field (No. 3), women’s indoor track & field (No. 7), men’s tennis (No. 9), volleyball (No. 9) and men’s indoor track & field (No. 10).

Other top-20 finishes came from men’s golf (No. 11), men’s swimming & diving (No. 12), men’s basketball (No. 17) and softball (No. 17).

In addition to success on the various fields of play, Aggie student-athletes were very involved in the community as well as excelling in the classroom. The overall departmental spring 2025 term grade-point average was 3.208, the highest in school history. Four teams achieved a 3.4-or-higher GPA, while 14 teams achieved a 3.0-or-better. A total of 73-percent of the Aggie student-athletes earned a spot on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (3.0-or-better), including a record number of 94 student-athletes who achieved a perfect 4.0. The Aggie football team also posted its highest cumulative GPA with a 2.934 average.

Under Alberts’ leadership, Nebraska posted back-to-back top-30 finishes in the Learfield Directors’ Cup for the first time in a decade, including a No. 22 effort in 2023-24. It was the Cornhuskers’ highest finish in the Directors’ Cup since 2010.

Nebraska’s athletic achievements in 2023-24 included NCAA top-10 finishes by seven teams: volleyball (No. 2), men’s gymnastics (No. 4), women’s soccer (No. 5), women’s bowling (No. 5), women’s rifle (No. 8), men’s wrestling (No. 9) and women’s track & field (No. 9). The Huskers claimed Big Ten regular season or tournament championships in women’s soccer, volleyball, men’s gymnastics, men’s outdoor track & field and baseball.

In his first season at Nebraska in 2021-22, Alberts helped the Huskers navigate the ever-changing landscape of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) guidelines for the benefit of Nebraska student-athletes. He led the development of the N-Vest Nebraska program to award $5,980 per year to student-athletes who met academic benchmarks. Alberts also spearheaded the charge to complete the fundraising for Nebraska’s Go Big Project with Phase I, which included a new football facility, being completed in the spring of 2024. The project housed academic, life skills, nutrition and support services for all Nebraska student-athletes.

A tireless worker who puts both the interests of student-athletes and fans first, Alberts helped orchestrate a qualitative survey of Nebraska’s fan base to help shape the future of Memorial Stadium’s gameday atmosphere. Alberts also focused much of his time on developing the first strategic plan for Nebraska Athletics in 15 years. He committed himself to providing intense support and a unifying vision for Nebraska’s coaches across all sports.

He continued to make a mark on Nebraska Athletics in his second year. Alberts conducted a thorough, nationwide search for a new leader for the Husker football program in the fall of 2022 that resulted in the hiring of Matt Rhule as Nebraska’s new head coach. Rhule had a proven track record as a program builder at the college level, winning conference championships at both Temple and Baylor. Since his hiring, Rhule energized the Nebraska fan base and attracted top-25 recruiting classes to the Husker program in 2023 and 2024.

Alberts also spearheaded a new 15-year multimedia right agreement between Nebraska Athletics and Playfly Sports, an emerging leader in sports marketing, media and technology. The partnership was one of the nation’s most comprehensive multimedia rights agreements and had a total value of $301 million for Nebraska over the life of the contract.

Academically, Nebraska student-athletes scored a 94-percent graduation success rate (GSR) in 2023, which continued a four-year streak of 94-percent-or-higher scores for the Cornhuskers. It was the sixth-consecutive year that Nebraska’s all student-athlete GSR was ranked in the top-15 among the 111 public FBS institutions.

Alberts’ impact on college athletics stretched beyond the Nebraska campus. A respected leader at the Big Ten and national level, Alberts served on both the NCAA’s Division I Football Oversight Committee and the NCAA Division I Competition Committee.

Alberts’ tenure leading the University of Nebraska at Omaha athletics was marked by successes in competition and in academics; by transitioning the university’s athletic programs to NCAA Division I in 2011; and by establishing new homes for many UNO athletics teams, including Baxter Arena, the Maverick Park baseball/softball complex and the soccer pitch at Caniglia Field.

Alberts took the bold step in announcing that Omaha would reclassify from Division II to Division I in all sports in 2011 and simultaneously securing conference affiliation with the Summit League for all of the department’s then-Division II programs. His vision for UNO’s reclassifying teams was demonstrated even before the four-year transition period had ended. The Omaha baseball team won back-to-back Summit League regular season championships in 2013 and 2014, while the men’s basketball team made its first Division I postseason appearance in 2014 with a berth in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.

During UNO’s time in the Division I ranks under Alberts’ tenure, the Mavericks had six teams and four student-athletes qualify for the NCAA Tournament, including hockey advancing to the Frozen Four in 2015 and men’s soccer reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament in the spring of 2021. He also expanded opportunities, adding men’s golf and men’s soccer in 2011, and Omaha began a men’s swimming & diving program in 2021-22.

Throughout his tenure in Omaha, Alberts was focused on enhancing the student-athlete experience, including the construction and staffing of the Hamilton Academic Excellence Room and the development of the Ethel S. Abbott Student-Athlete Development Wing. Those efforts paid off in UNO student-athletes posting consistent collective semester grade point averages above 3.3 for 18-consecutive semesters, including at least a 3.5 in each of his final three semesters.

The facilities around Omaha Athletics received a major uplift during his tenure. Maverick Park opened in March of 2021 to rave reviews as the home to the Mavericks’ baseball and softball programs. Funding for the complex, which includes a 1,500-seat baseball facility and a 650-seat softball facility, were raised privately and provided both programs a permanent on-campus home for the first time.

Another crowning achievement was the opening of Baxter Arena in 2015. Alberts directed efforts to secure community support and funding to build the on-campus arena, which allowed the nationally prominent hockey program to play on campus and also served as the home of the men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball programs. Caniglia Field underwent renovations in 2012, making it one of the finest collegiate soccer facilities in the country, highlighted by a FIFA 2-star rated playing surface and one of the largest LED videoboards in a soccer-only college facility.

Alberts’ work on behalf of hockey, UNO’s established Division I sport, also paid dividends. He successfully guided the Mavericks into the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference in 2013-14. The following year, Omaha reached the 2015 NCAA Frozen Four.

In addition, Alberts and his team led Omaha Athletics into a partnership with Learfield, a national leader in the marketing of collegiate athletics, and developed Omaha Sports Properties. As the exclusive corporate sponsorship sales unit for UNO Athletics, Omaha Sports Properties further enhanced revenue and increased brand prominence locally, regionally and nationally.

As part of UNO’s reclassification to Division I, Alberts oversaw the rebranding of UNO athletics with new primary and secondary logos, and a greater focus on strengthening the Maverick brand both regionally and nationally.

As a student-athlete, Alberts was an All-American on and off the football field as a Husker Blackshirt. He was Nebraska’s first Butkus Award winner in 1993, helping head coach Tom Osborne’s Huskers to an undefeated regular season and an Orange Bowl appearance against Florida State. A first-team All-American by every major publication in 1993, he was also the Football News National Defensive Player of the Year, the Big Eight Male Athlete of the Year and the Big Eight Defensive Player of the Year. His No. 34 jersey was retired at the 1994 Red-White Spring Game. In 2015, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Off the field, Alberts earned the NCAA’s highest honor, The Today’s Top Six Award. A three-time Academic All-Big Eight honoree, he was a CoSIDA Academic All-American in 1993. He graduated from Nebraska before his senior season.

Alberts was the fifth pick in the 1994 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts and played for the Colts until 1996. Following his NFL career, he served as an analyst on college and professional football games for major national networks, including ESPN, CNN/SI and CBS Sports Network.

Alberts and his wife Angela have three children – Chase (and his wife, Cassie), Ashtynne (and her husband, Riley) and Breanna. Trev and Angela have one grandson, Walker John.