Meet the Team

Mick Gillispie
Director of Broadcasting
mgillispie@smokiesbaseball.com
(865) 286-2300

Mick Gillispie begins his fifth season as Director of Broadcasting for the Smokies. Prior to joining Tennessee he spent 2005 & 2006 with the Chattanooga Lookouts broadcast team with long time voice Larry Ward. In 2004, Gillispie acted as Director of Broadcaster for the Salem Avalanche (Class A Carolina League).

Mick’s broadcasting career started at the University of Alabama on WVUA radio in Tuscaloosa. He did play-by-play of Alabama Baseball and hosted a football pre-game show. After graduating college, he moved to North Carolina as broadcaster for the Wilson Tobs. While there, he also acted as the team’s Assistant General Manager. In addition to baseball, Gillispie spends the off-season working for the Crimson Tide Sports Network calling Alabama baseball and women’s basketball games. He also broadcasts high school football for Tuscaloosa County High on 99.1 FM in Tuscaloosa. At the conclusion of the 2010 season, Gillispie was named the Southern League Broadcaster Of The Year. In 2011, Mick is calling 20 spring training games for the Chicago Cubs Radio Network. Mick will call the action for all 140 games on the Smokies Radio Network.

Roger Hoover
Broadcasting Assistant
rogerwhoover@gmail.com
Twitter: @Roger_Hoover

Roger Hoover enters his fifth season of professional baseball broadcasting and the 2012 season marks his return to the Smokies. Hoover spent the 2011 season as the Radio Broadcaster for the Jacksonville Suns of the Southern League.

Hoover, a native of Kingsport, Tenn., began working with the Smokies in 2009 as a broadcasting assistant, and has provided play-by-play for Tennessee in each of the past three Southern League playoffs. Before working with the Smokies, Hoover served as the Director of Broadcasting for the Kingsport Mets, the Appalachian League affiliate of the New York Mets in 2008.

Hoover currently is the color analyst for University of Tennessee baseball on the Vol Network and the play-by-play announcer for Maryville College Athletics on knoxivi.com. A University of Tennessee alumnus, Hoover began his broadcasting career in 2006 with the Vol Network.