
ECHL's Carnefix League Media Relations Director Of Year
January 5, 2007 - ECHL (ECHL) News Release
PRINCETON, N.J. - The ECHL announced that MLN Sports has named ECHL Vice
President of Communications Jack Carnefix as the recipient of its
League Media Relations Director of the Year Award for 2006 in the
current issue of its flagship magazine, MLN Sports Zone.
He becomes the first two-time winner of the award having won in 2003 while
finishing as a runner-up in 2001.
MLN Sports provides coverage of more than 700 professional teams and 38
professional leagues in hockey, baseball, basketball and football through
the magazine at
www.MLNSportsZone.com and the first national RSS newswire, MLN - The
Raw Feed at
www.MLNTheRawFeed.com.
"On behalf of the ECHL and our member teams we are both pleased and proud
that Jack has been recognized as the first two-time winner of this award.
Jack works long and hard on behalf of the ECHL," said ECHL Commissioner
Brian McKenna. "To be recognized for his outstanding efforts from such a
large field of candidates is a prestigious and well-deserved honor."
"It is gratifying to be recognized and I want to thank MLN Sports,"
said Carnefix. "I am extremely fortunate to work with very good people at
both the league and the team level which makes my job easier."
Carnefix is in his second season as Vice President of Communications and
his seventh season with the ECHL, having served five years as Director of
Communications. He joined the ECHL in 2000 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. Carnefix was presented the
inaugural West Coast Hockey League Public Relations Director of the Year
award in 1999 and won the award again the following season. He spent seven
years with Oklahoma State University baseball and three years as the
assistant sports information director at Oklahoma State.
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