Carnefix Promoted To Vice President of Communications
September 26, 2005 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - Commissioner Brian McKenna announced on Monday that Jack
Carnefix has been promoted to Vice President of Communications for the
ECHL. Carnefix has been with the ECHL since November 2000 as Director of
Communications and also serves as the elected Secretary for the ECHL Board
of Governors.
"Jack is an invaluable asset to the league office and an important resource
to our member teams," said McKenna. "He is well deserving of this
promotion."
Carnefix is responsible for the league's communications department,
including all media relations while also overseeing the content and
production of all ECHL publications as well as assisting the media
relations contacts for each of the 26 member teams. He is responsible for
the creation and implementation of content on the official league web site
ECHL.com, which has seen its traffic grow more than 80 percent in each of
the last two years, as well as the creation and maintenance of the ECHL.com
Network. Carnefix works in conjunction with the host team on press
releases, press conferences and other avenues to increase media and public
awareness for the annual ECHL All-Star Game while also coordinating the
online audio and video productions.
Carnefix came to the ECHL after six years as the director of communications
for Diamond Sports & Entertainment in Boise, Idaho. Diamond Sports entities
included the Idaho Steelheads hockey team, the Boise Hawks baseball team,
the Idaho Sneakers World TeamTennis franchise, professional boxing events,
and the Bank of America Centre, a 5,000-seat multipurpose facility in
downtown Boise. He received the inaugural West Coast Hockey League Public
Relations Director of the Year award in 1999 and won the award again the
following season. Carnefix spent seven years as director of operations for
the Oklahoma State University baseball team and three years as the
assistant sports information director at Oklahoma State.
Born in Kingsville, Texas, Carnefix received his bachelor's degree in
journalism - news editorial from Oklahoma State University. He and his
wife, Rashel, who is an Assistant Director for Campus Information Services
at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, reside in North Brunswick,
New Jersey.
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