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- Assistant Director of Sports Brands & Communications
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Kyle Cajero begins his second season at USC in 2026-27. This is his first year as the men's basketball sports information director.
Prior to USC, Cajero spent three years as an Assistant Director Communications at Pepperdine, his alma mater, from 2023-25. At Pepperdine, Cajero doubled the social media following for both men’s and women’s tennis teams while improving all facets of tennis coverage. He helped promote six All-American tennis players, including 2024 NCAA Doubles Finalists Savannah Broadus and Janice Tjen, while covering four NCAA Championships. In addition to tennis, Cajero served as the sports information director for the women’s volleyball, baseball, men’s golf, cross country, track and women’s basketball teams.
In 2025, Cajero's feature story about Pepperdine's WCC cross country champions was the 2024-25 CSC Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest national runner-up and the District 8 Historical Feature of the Year.
Before returning to Pepperdine, Cajero was the Assistant Director of Media & Digital Relations at Montana State University in 2022-23. There, he covered MSU men’s cross country’s first NCAA Championship-qualifying team in 20 years, was the men's basketball SID for MSU's 2023 Big Sky Championship-winning team and was the in-game social media voice of MSU's football team when it hosted ESPN’s College Gameday and made the FCS semifinals.
He began his Montana stint at Montana State University-Billings in 2021-22. Cajero was the main point of contact for eight of MSUB’s 16 Division II sports, plus he did in-game social media, print and graphic design for all 16 teams.
During his first stint at Pepperdine, Cajero was a graduate assistant and served as the primary contact for the Waves’ swim and dive, cross country and track teams during the 2020-21 season. As the track SID, he provided on-site coverage the Waves' first-ever appearance at the NCAA West Preliminaries.
Cajero began his career at the Bonner County Daily Bee, a daily newspaper based in Sandpoint, Idaho, where he was the the Sports Editor from 2018-19.
During his undergraduate years at Pepperdine, Cajero was a cross country and track athlete. At one time, he held the school records in the 800 meters and 4x400-meter relay. Outside of athletics, he worked on the sports desk at Pepperdine's student newspaper, the Pepperdine Graphic, for seven semesters.
Originally from Tucson, Ariz., Cajero graduated from Pepperdine in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in creative writing.
