Alex Croteau has worked in the UC Irvine Athletics Media Relations since joining the department in late 2010 as an intern. He joined the team on a full-time basis the following year.
Croteau has been the primary media contact for both men's and women's soccer programs since 2011, and became the primary media contact for the baseball team in 2016. He has also been the contact for men's basketball during the 2017-18 season and for women's water polo, men's tennis, and women's tennis for five seasons from 2011-15. His work with each program has taken him to such events as:
- 2011 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships at Michigan
- 2011 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament First Round hosted at UC Irvine
- 2011 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament Second Round hosted at UC Irvine
- 2012 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships at San Diego State
- 2013 NCAA Women's Tennis Championships First and Second Rounds hosted at USC
- 2013 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament Second and Third Rounds hosted at UC Irvine and Maryland
- 2014 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships at USC
- 2014 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament Second and Third Rounds hosted at Stanford and Providence
- 2015 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championships at Stanford
- 2018 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament First and Second Rounds hosted at UC Irvine and Stanford
The programs have also hosted numerous Big West Tournaments including five times by men's soccer, three times by women's soccer, and once with women's water polo.
Roberts-Croteau's duties include content creation, storytelling and writing, and acting has archivist and team historian for each of his programs. He creates releases, game notes, postseason guides, some graphic design, and contributes on each program's social media accounts. For each and every soccer and baseball game along with past tennis, water polo, and basketball games, Roberts-Croteau can be found on the sideline or in the press box contributing as the game's official scorer, managing the game's operations, and on occasions contributing as play-by-play or color commentator on radio broadcasts or operating video or scoreboards in the Bren Events Center, Anteater Stadium, and Cicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark.
Roberts-Croteau also heads the Website Task Force (WTF), at one time with former marketing and digital media member, Dom Simons, working to materialize the creative vision of the current ucirvinesports.com powered by SIDEARM Sports, and is responsible for most maintenance and innovation regarding the site and its look and functionality.
Prior to joining the athletics department, Roberts-Croteau was a student at UC Irvine from 2004-09 where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Sociology. He was a student intern within the department from 2007-09 working with all units ranging from academic advisors to compliance to marketing to, ultimately, communications. Upon entering as a freshman in the Fall of 2004, Roberts-Croteau earned a walk-on spot with the UC Irvine baseball team under new head coach Dave Serrano for two seasons in 2005 and 2006 as a shortstop and pitcher.
Upon graduation, Roberts-Croteau joined up with the Lake Elsinore Storm Baseball Club, Advanced-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, as a media relations assistant for parts of three seasons from 2009-11. Roberts-Croteau was in charge of day-to-day media operations with the team, staff, media personnel, and various publications. The club was present for many media events including the 2009 California-Carolina League All-Star Game, Manny Ramirez's return and rehab stint televised by ESPN, and reached the California League Playoffs all three years culminating in their second Cal League title in 2011.
The Southern California-native was born in Orange, Calif. and attended nearby Orange Lutheran High School graduating in 2004. He played on their baseball team lettering in two years including his senior season in 2004 where the club reached the CIF Semifinals. His sister, Cami, is also an accomplished athlete playing volleyball throughout high school leading into the most successful years of women's volleyball at Cal State Fullerton bringing the program to their first and only winning season, Big West title, and trip to the NCAA Tournament. She has gone on to train for the U.S. National Team and named as a reserve to the 2012 Olympic squad. She received doctorate from the University of Western Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Roberts-Croteau also lived at the illustrious 170 Violet Bloom manor in Irvine with his closest coworkers and confidantes, Dom Simons, Vincent Chow, and Timothy Prelletz.
Alex is inside-and-out a sports enthusiast claiming allegiance to hometown teams the Los Angeles Angels and Anaheim Ducks in their respective sports in addition to the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was fortunate enough to travel and experience the 2018 World Cup in Russia along with numerous other sporting events, and enjoys following all sports and events notably international soccer, mixed martial arts, auto racing, monster truck shows, and marble racing. He lists his favorite sports moments as being present for the multiple Ducks Stanley Cup Playoff games and games 6 and 7 of the 2002 World Series.
Roberts-Croteau is much more than his passion for sports. He enjoys cooking and searching out new and different cuisines, restaurants, and breweries. Some culinary suggestions he has are the sushi at Buddha's Favorite in Newport Beach, BBQ at Lockhart Smoke House in Dallas, Tex., Vietnamese food at Le Colonial in San Francisco, pizza at La Cantina Pohorje in Maribor, Slovenia, caprese salad at Ristorante Continental in Venice, Italy, shwarma and juice at Haty Elgash in Cairo, Egypt, fried chicken at Side Street Inn in Honolulu, Hawai'i, or a breakfast burrito from Troy's in his hometown of Orange.
He also enjoys to travel experiencing such exotic locations as Brookings, S.D., Manhattan, KS, Carbondale, IL, Missoula, MT, Springfield, MO, Rochester, MN, Iowa City, IA, and many others in the 26 U.S. states he's visited. Outside the U.S., Roberts-Croteau has set foot in England, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt on his international travels, and would love to expand those horizons to somewhere on each continent with Montenegro, Colombia, Iceland, Seychelles, Thailand, and Australia on the top of his list. He enjoys movies and television shows especially documentaries. He lists some of his favorite movies as The Fifth Element, Superbad, Suicide Kings, Shaun of the Dead, and Big Trouble, some of his favorite TV shows as Justified, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Aerial America, Arrested Development, and Bob's Burgers, and some of his top documentaries as The Hawaiian, Jiro, Two Escobars, OJ: Made in America, 42-to-1, and Nature Boy.
Alex currently resides in San Diego, Calif. commuting to campus for work, and lives with his wife, Julie, who is also a UCI grad, and their pup, Gracie.
