Kyle Cajero returned to Pepperdine as the Assistant Director Communications in April 2023. He is a class of 2018 Pepperdine graduate, a former cross country and track student-athlete and sports information graduate assistant for the Waves. He is entering his fourth year at Pepperdine (in his second stint) in 2025-26.
In 2025, Cajero's feature story about Pepperdine's cross country WCC 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 and the Assistant Director of Communications at Montana State University Billings from 2021-23. Highlights from Montana State include: covering MSU men’s cross country’s first NCAA Championship-qualifying team in 20 years, providing on-site coverage for numerous Big Sky Conference indoor track and field champions, and being the in-game social media voice of MSU's football team in a season where it hosted ESPN’s College Gameday and made the FCS semifinals. He was also the men’s basketball SID for Montana State’s 2023 Big Sky Championship-winning team.
At MSU-Billings, Cajero was the main point of contact for eight of MSUB’s 16 Division II sports, plus handled in-game social media, print and graphic design for all 16 teams. There, he was the only SID in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference to provide on-site coverage for the basketball, indoor and outdoor track championships.
As Pepperdine's sports information graduate assistant, Cajero was the primary contact for the Waves’ swim and dive, plus the cross country and track teams during the 2020-21 school year. As the track SID, he provided on-site coverage for Karl Winter — the Waves' first-ever qualifier at the 2021 NCAA West Preliminary Meet, held in College Station, Texas.
Prior to Pepperdine, Cajero was the Sports Editor at the Bonner County Daily Bee, a daily newspaper based in Sandpoint, Idaho, from 2018-19.
During his undergraduate years at Pepperdine, Cajero was a cross country and track athlete for two years. He briefly held the men's 800 meter and 4x400-meter relay records in track, plus he worked on the sports section for the Pepperdine Graphic, the student newspaper, and eventually served as the Graphic's sports editor for three semesters.
Originally from Tucson, Ariz., Cajero graduated from Pepperdine in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in creative writing.
