Evan Roberts in his first season as the Head of NIL & Digital at Miami, joining the department in July 2024.
Roberts previously served as Associate Director of Athletics for Communications and Digital Strategy at Louisiana where he was the chief communications officer for the department, while overseeing the athletics communications, broadcast and coaches video departments.
Roberts spent seven years as an Assistant Athletics Communications Director at Texas A&M, joining the program in January 2016. During his tenure in Bryan-College Station, Roberts handled publicity for the Aggies’ men’s basketball and men’s golf teams.
A native Hoosier, Roberts spent four seasons (2016-19) as the softball contact in which the Aggies appeared in four NCAA Regionals, two NCAA Super Regionals and the 2017 Women’s College World Series. During the construction of Texas A&M’s $28.6 million stadium, Davis Diamond, Roberts played an integral part in the planning and execution of the graphics printed throughout the facility. Additionally, Roberts was the official scorer at the Women’s College World Series for three seasons (2019, ’21, ’22).
Roberts spent seven seasons as an equestrian SID, and served as the Chair of the National Collegiate Equestrian Association’s Selection Committee for multiple seasons.
Prior to his arrival at Texas A&M, Roberts served as a Communications Assistant at his alma mater – Auburn University – working as the primary contact for the equestrian, women’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s track & field and cross country teams, while assisting with men’s basketball.
Before taking the position as Communications Assistant, Roberts burst onto the athletics communications scene as a student worker in the media relations office at Auburn beginning in 2009.
During the summer of 2010, he was the broadcast intern for the Orlando Mavericks of the Florida Collegiate Summer League. As the lead play-by-play voice for the Mavericks, Roberts’ broadcasts could be heard worldwide online with select marquee matchups on the local ESPN Radio station.
Roberts graduated from Auburn in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
