Jerry Schemmel

Gerard H. Schemmel (born November 26, 1959) is an American sportscaster working as a play-by-play radio announcer for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball.^[1][2][3] He previously called Denver Nuggets games on both Radio and TV for 18 seasons.

Jerry Schemmel
Schemmel in 2015
Born	(1959-11-26) November 26, 1959 (age 65) Madison, South Dakota, U.S.
Occupations	Broadcaster Motivational speaker

He is a survivor of the United Airlines Flight 232 disaster that occurred on July 19, 1989.^[3]

Schemmel is also an endurance cyclist, and holds several state of Colorado cycling records. In 2015, he and cycling partner Brad Cooper won the Two Person Division of the Race Across America. The pair finished 3,062 miles in little over seven days. A documentary about their effort, called Godspeed, was released in 2017.