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An athletic communications professional with nearly two decades of experience, working for the past eight years in the nation’s No. 1 media market (New York) and more than 10 years in the country’s No. 4 media market (Philadelphia), Kevin Lorincz serves as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Communications at Rutgers University. The Cinnaminson, N.J. native has worked in public relations at the Division I and professional levels, as well as in print editorial and broadcast television.

In addition to serving as a department spokesperson, Lorincz oversees an Athletic Communications Department of eight full-time staffers that service 24 intercollegiate sports. He also oversees RVision, the video/television production arm of Athletics that consists of four full-time staffers and produces live events for BTN Plus, as well as news packages and highlights for online, in-stadium and linear outlets.

As liaison to BTN, Lorincz facilitated the first national broadcast of the Rutgers Football spring game on the network in 2015. He also worked with IMG College to expand the football radio network into Southern New Jersey, securing affiliates in Atlantic City and Camden. Lorincz is an associate producer for The Rutgers Basketball Story, an emmy-nominated television show that broadcasts in the New York, Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C./Baltimore markets.

The primary media contact for RU’s Big Ten Conference basketball program and women’s golf team. Lorincz helped lead an initiative to brand the long-standing Rutgers-Seton Hall basketball rivalry the “Garden State Hardwood Classic.” The series now features a perpetual trophy crafted from recycled Asbury Park boardwalks planks salvaged in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

Lorincz and his staff create and edit content for ScarletKnights.com and expand the Rutgers Athletics presence via social media outlets, including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The Athletics Communications Office writes, edits and researches publications, including media guides, press releases, game notes, game programs and feature stories. The team also manages media interviews of players and coaches and coordinates press conferences.

Lorincz was elevated to his current position in March 2015, after previously serving as assistant athletic director, director and associate director of athletic communications at Rutgers. He arrived “On the Banks” in 2007 after working as Associate Director of Sports Media Relations at Temple University. Lorincz spent eight years at Temple, initially serving as an assistant director from 1997 to 1999 before returning as associate director from 2001 to 2007. He worked seven seasons as the primary contact for football, including four as a member of the Big East, while also working seasons as the contact for both men’s and women’s basketball.

On the gridiron, Lorincz engineered successful publicity campaigns for AP All-American and Big East Defensive Player of the Year Dan Klecko and produced the 2006 “Golden Era Begins” ticket infomercial at Temple. On the hardwood, he worked with Hall of Fame head coach John Chaney during a season in which the Owls advanced to the Atlantic 10 Championship final and the quarterfinals of the NIT.

A 1995 graduate of the University of New Orleans, Lorincz began his career in the sports industry as an intern in the sports department at WVUE-TV in New Orleans. After graduation, he worked as an intern in the Philadelphia Eagles Department of Public Relations. From 2000 to 2001, he served as an editorial assistant in the Philadelphia Inquirer sports department.

Lorincz resides in Moorestown, N.J., with wife Jennifer and daughters Olivia, Emma and Sophia.