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Albert Veytia arrived on the Hilltop in the spring of 2011 with an extensive background as an equipment manager at both the collegiate and professional levels.

Veytia was most recently head equipment manager at Kansas State, where he worked for two seasons, but his resume also includes a stop at North Texas, as well as stints with the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs and Jacksonville Jaguars and two stops in NFL Europe (Frankfurt, Germany and Barcelona, Spain). Veytia has also served as head equipment manager for the Birmingham Barracudas of the Canadian Football League.

A graduate of UTEP, Veytia worked as a student manager for the Miners before joining the staff of the USFL's Houston Gamblers, where he worked with former SMU Coach June Jones.