Jack Michaels

Jack Michaels
VP of Communications / Team Operations

Jack joined the Aces in September of 2002 and was promoted to Vice President/Alternate Governor in 2006. He came to Anchorage after spending three seasons as the Director of Communications and Marketing with the Colorado Gold Kings (WCHL), based in Colorado Springs. Last season, Michaels was selected to do the play-by-play for the NHL Network's broadcast of the 2008 ECHL All-Star Game, his third such honor. Jack won "Goldie" Awards, issued by the Alaska Broadcasters Association for "best live play-by-play" in each of the last three years (2006, '07, and '08). He earned his second trip to the ECHL All-Star Game as one of the television announcers in the 2006 telecast that was replayed on OLN (now Versus). In each of his first two years in Anchorage, Michaels won his league's Broadcaster of the Year (2003-WCHL, 2004-ECHL). In 2004, Jack was selected as the television play-by-play announcer for the ECHL All-Star Game, a telecast that reached more than 25 million homes, including NHL Center Ice and NHL Network subscribers, and later that season took home the league's Broadcaster of the Year award. Michaels also was named WCHL Broadcaster of the Year in 2001 and selected to call the 2001 WCHL-CHL All-Star Game in San Diego, where he served as both the game's broadcast coordinator and play-by-play announcer. Prior to arriving in Colorado Springs in 1999, Jack handled play-by-play duties for college baseball, basketball, and football in northwest Pennsylvania. He was named Sportscaster of the Year in 1997 by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters. Over the past 10 years, Jack has earned six Broadcaster of the Year awards and been selected to call three all-star games. Michaels graduated magna cum laude from Ithaca College in upstate New York, where he covered everything from Cornell hockey and football to Ithaca football, basketball, baseball, lacrosse, and soccer while earning an NCAA scholarship in sports journalism. In 1994, he completed a paid internship at HBO Sports in New York City, where he helped in the production of Inside the NFL, Wimbledon, and three world championship fights. Jack lives in southwest Anchorage with his wife, Emily, and their two children, Callie and Tyler.