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Kevin Olivett joined the University of Houston Department of Athletics in September 2017 as director of men's basketball marketing.
In that role, he will oversee all marketing efforts for Houston Men's Basketball games through a variety of platforms. During the 2017-18 season, Olivett also worked with Houston Baseball.
Olivett came to Houston after serving as general manager of Stetson Sports Properties for OUTFRONT Media in December 2014.
During his time at Stetson, he grew sponsorship for Hatters Athletics to an all-time high with sponsorships for Hatters Athletics increasing by more than 25 percent each year. Olivett also grew the total number of sponsors 61 percentfrom year one to year two.
Before his work at Stetson, Olivett was the associate athletics director for marketing, promotions and social media at Coastal Carolina from 2011 to 2014.
While at CCU, he led efforts to revamp the gameday atmosphere surrounding Football, Basketball and Baseball. In addition, Olivett led the marketing efforts for the two highest attended Football games, Basketball games and Baseball games in school history.
Prior to CCU, Olivett served as assistant athletics director for marketing at Georgia State, manager of corporate sales and promotions at Akron and in a variety of marketing, sales and ticketing roles at Georgia Tech.
Before completing his master's degree, Kevin served internships at St. Bonaventure in his hometown of Olean, N.Y., in addition to internships at Slippery Rock, Tulane, with the Pittsburgh Penguins and at the Nokia Sugar Bowl.
Olivett is a graduate of Slippery Rock, where he received his bachelor's degree in sport management in 1999. He earned his master's degree in education in sport administration from Wichita State in 2001 after serving as a graduate assistant in the ticket office for the Shockers.