Mick Gillispie
Director of Broadcasting
smokiesonradio@yahoo.com
Twitter: @SmokiesonRadio
Mick Gillispie begins his sixth 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 and 2012, Mick is called 20 spring training games for the Chicago Cubs Radio Network. Mick will call the action for all 140 games on the Smokies Radio Network.
Cody Chrusciel
Broadcasting Assistant
chrusciel14@gmail.com
Cody Chrusciel joins the Smokies in 2012 for his fifth season broadcasting professional baseball. Prior to coming to Tennessee, he spent the past four seasons as Director of Broadcasting and Media Relations for the New Jersey Jackals of the independent Can-Am League.
In the offseason, Chrusciel works at the University of Massachusetts, calling play-by-play for UMass women’s basketball, handling sideline reporting duties for Minutemen football, and producing features for the athletic department’s weekly television show. He has previously worked in broadcasting and multimedia at Army (the United States Military Academy at West Point), the video services department with the Philadelphia Phillies, and the public relations and broadcasting department of the ECHL’s Trenton Devils.
A Wayne, N.J., native, Chrusciel studied broadcast journalism and radio/television/film at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., before earning his master’s degree in sport management from UMass.
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.
Jonathan Guess
Broadcasting Intern
jguess@utk.edu
Twitter: @jon_guess
Jonathan Guess joins the Smokies for his first season as a broadcast assistant. Guess is a senior Journalism and Electronic Media major at the University of Tennessee. He spent time as a DJ at the UT campus radio station 90.3 The Rock.
Guess, a Kingsland, Ga., native, spent the first three years of his college career playing golf at Thomas University. He transferred to UT in 2009 and will graduate in May.
Adam King
Broadcasting Intern
aking90@aol.com
Twitter: @ADAMKING322
Adam King will be graduating this May from the University of Tennessee and will assist in the production of the Smokies Radio Network for the 2012 season.
King, a native of Marietta, GA., experienced collegiate baseball firsthand, splitting time at the catcher position for Young Harris College in north Georgia in Spring 2009. King received a scholarship to play for the University of Tennessee in Fall 2009, but hung the spikes up in the fall of 2011 to further his career in sports broadcasting.
King currently serves as the color analyst for University of Tennessee Baseball video webcasts on UTsports.com with Roger Hoover. He is also currently shadowing John Wilkerson, the play-by-play announcer for Tennessee Baseball on the Sports Animal. In addition, King is also an Assistant Producer and Anchor for Sports Mecca, the student-run TV station on campus.
