Kevin Eschenfelder is an American

United States

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 sportscaster

Sportscaster

In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

 who currently serves as the anchor of Southwest Sports Tonight on FSN Southwest, one of several regional sports networks that make up Fox Sports Net

Fox Sports Net

The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net , are a collection of cable TV regional sports networks in the United States owned and operated by News Corporation.- Beginnings :...

. Eschenfelder is one of the most visible personalities on FSN Southwest, and serves as a play-by-play announcer on regional college sports telecasts.

Early career

Kevin Eschenfelder graduated from Dulles High School

Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas)

John Foster Dulles High School is a high school in Sugar Land, Texas. It was the first site purchase and new build, in the 1950s, of the newly formed Fort Bend Independent School District, which held its first graduation in 1960. The first class to graduate from Dulles itself was 1962...

 in Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas, having grown more than 158 percent in the last decade. In the time period of 2000–2007, Sugar Land also enjoyed a...

 in 1983, and later attended Alvin Community College

Alvin Community College

Alvin Community College is a community college in Brazoria County in the U.S. state of Texas. Alvin Community College provides educational opportunities in workforce training, academics, technical fields, adult basic education, and personal development.As defined by the Texas Legislature, the...

 (also known as ACC) in nearby Alvin, Texas

Alvin, Texas

Alvin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area and Brazoria County. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 21,413. Alvin's claim to fame is Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who moved with his family to the city in 1947 as...

, where he served as the voice announcer for Alvin High School sporting events on KACC

KACC

KACC is an album-oriented rock formatted radio station based in Alvin, Texas, broadcasting on 89.7 FM in the Greater Houston area. It is under ownership of Alvin Community College, and is run by Mark Moss. Its transmitter is located in Santa Fe-Alvin border.KACC was originally a volunteer radio...

 (89.7 FM in Houston), the on-campus radio station for ACC.

Eschenfelder also served as a play-by-play announcer for two Houston-area universities, Houston Baptist University

Houston Baptist University

Houston Baptist University is a private Baptist institution founded in 1960. It is located in Greater Sharpstown in Houston, Texas near the Southwest Freeway.- History :...

 and Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

, the latter of which he presided play-by-play duties over from 1988-1992. In 1990, Eschenfelder earned a bachelor's degree from the .

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

Southland Conference

The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...

 football and basketball games, basketball games for the Southwest Conference and later, the Big 12 Conference

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference of ten schools located in the Central United States, with its headquarters located in Las Colinas, a community in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Irving...

, 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

Matt Bullard

Matthew Gordon Bullard is a retired American basketball player in the NBA, who went undrafted after graduating from the University of Iowa in 1990...

 on FS Houston.