Matthew Cavazos became an assistant director of athletic communications, serving as the primary media contact for the men’s soccer, women’s swimming & diving, and men’s and women’s tennis programs, on Dec. 1, 2025.
Cavazos started at UTRGV as an informational writer for the UTRGV Newsroom in July 2023 before being promoted to multimedia journalist ahead of the 2024-25 academic year.
During his first two and a half years at UTRGV, Cavazos has served as a project manager for several athletics projects, including the creation of microsites such as
RallyTheValley.com and
GoUTRGV.com/VAF. He has also been the women’s swimming & diving media contact since the program returned and assisted as the media contact for the tennis programs this past fall.
Cavazos has served in a variety of game day roles, assisting with statistics and record keeping, writing recaps, clipping highlights, monitoring field access for the media at football, and assisting with the ESPN+ broadcasts in roles ranging from camera operator to replay operator.
A graduate of Texas Tech, Cavazos previously worked as a student employee for Texas Tech Broadcast Services and as a production intern with the Southern Illinois Miners in the summer of 2021. He also interned with UTRGV University Marketing and Communications in the summer of 2022.
