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Kevin Wagner

LSU
Kevin Wagner
Title
Assistant AD/Television Operations
Email
jwagne2@lsu.edu
Phone
(225) 578-1797
Hometown
Denham Springs, La.
Alma Mater
LSU (1980)

In April, 2014, Kevin Wagner was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director, Network Operations, and Wagner oversees the LSU Athletic Department’s responsibilities for the SEC Television Network.

Included in those responsibilities is production of all live digital sports events originating at LSU for the SEC Network. Wagner also oversees and coordinates all other television production projects for the LSU Athletic Department as they pertain to the SECNetwork.

For 25 years before his involvement with the SEC Network, Wagner served as the Executive Producer/Director for LSU¹s four major coaches’ television shows and he coordinated video production for LSU¹s video scoreboards in Tiger Stadium, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and Alex Box Stadium.

Wagner, 62, joined LSU’s Television department as Assistant Coordinator in August of 1989, and was promoted to Coordinator of Electronic Media/Television in July of 1994.

A 1980 graduate of LSU in broadcast journalism, Wagner was a four-year Tiger letterman in diving (1975-79), earning All-Southeastern Conference honors in 1979 on the three-meter springboard.

A native of Houston with 39 years of TV production experience, Wagner and his wife Karen have two daughters – Allyson and Jennifer – and seven grandchildren: Kaleigh, Randy, Conner, Tanner, Carson, Kyndal, and Taylor.