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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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