Kevin Eschenfelder

Kevin Eschenfelder is an American sportscaster who currently serves as the anchor of Southwest Sports Tonight[1] on FSN Southwest, one of several regional sports networks that make up Fox Sports Net. Eschenfelder is one of the most visible personalities on FSN Southwest, and serves as a play-by-play announcer on regional college sports telecasts.[2][3]

Early career

Kevin Eschenfelder graduated from Dulles High School[4] in Sugar Land, Texas in 1983, and later attended Alvin Community College (also known as ACC) in nearby Alvin, Texas, where he served as the voice announcer for Alvin High School sporting events on KACC (89.7 FM in Houston), the on-campus radio station for ACC.[5]

Eschenfelder also served as a play-by-play announcer for two Houston-area universities, Houston Baptist University and Rice University, the latter of which he presided play-by-play duties over from 1988-1992. In 1990, Eschenfelder earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston–Clear Lake.

Fox Sports Net

In 1984, Eschenfelder began work at Houston-based regional sports network, Home Sports Entertainment (HSE), the precursor to what would become Prime Sports Southwest (later Fox Sports Southwest and now, FSN Southwest) as a statistician during his senior year at Dulles High School. In 1987, he began covering college basketball for the fledgling network. For his day job, Eschenfelder was a program manager for Prime Sports Rocky Mountain, operating out of HSE's Houston headquarters.

Eschenfelder became known to Houston viewers during Rockets and Astros games as the in-studio host for Club House, a pre-game show that later evolved into the present-day Southwest Sports Tonight, which he still hosts today. Southwest Sports Tonight is a half-hour program that not only airs before pro sporting events on FSN Southwest and its Houston-area feed, FSN Houston, but also complements its regional news program, the Southwest Sports Report on non-event nights.

Other events Eschenfelder has overseen includes play-by-play duties for Southland Conference football and basketball games, basketball games for the Southwest Conference and later, the Big 12 Conference, and Texas high school sporting events. Eschenfelder has also served as a fill-in analyst during Astros telecasts on FSN Houston.

He currently works with Matt Bullard on FS Houston.

References

  1. ^ Davis, Steve (6 December 2002). "Memento can't mask tragedy". Dallas Morning News. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7CDB6819696591&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
  2. ^ "Scout.com: WBB Preview: Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech". Scout.com. 17 February 2007. http://oklahoma.scout.com/2/619558.html. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
  3. ^ "Blair's Bunch Set To Battle Oklahoma". KBTX. 17 January 2009. http://www.kbtx.com/sports/headlines/37774664.html. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
  4. ^ Monica Roman; Richard Tijerina (6 March 2008). "UIL BOYS STATE TOURNAMENT CAPSULES". Austin American-Statesman. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11F4DC48CF4A13E8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 15 December 2010. 
  5. ^ Phyllis Kerr (August 1998). "Walking on air". University of Houston Clear Lake Egret. http://b3308-adm.uhcl.edu/egret/spring98/walkingonair.html. Retrieved 15 December 2010.