Jerry Schemmel

Schemmel came to the Nuggets from the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he was the team’s announcer on cable television telecasts from 1990-92.

Other professional basketball experience includes a year as the deputy commissioner and legal counsel for the Continental Basketball Association (1989) as well as four seasons as the marketing director and radio/television voice of the Kansas City/Topeka Sizzlers (1985-89).

Additionally, he was an announcer for CBA contests on ESPN and served as a backup announcer on several broadcasts for the Colorado Rockies baseball team. Schemmel has called action for several track and field championships and other sporting events.

A licensed attorney, Schemmel received his juris doctorate from Washburn University (Kan.) in 1985 and practiced law in Topeka from 1985-89. While attending law school, he was an assistant baseball coach for the Ichabods and was the school’s play-by-play announcer for football and basketball.

He received his bachelor’s degree in radio and television broadcasting from Washburn in 1982 and was a two-year letterman on the school’s baseball squad. He also played two years at South Dakota State before transferring to Washburn.

Schemmel served as an assistant baseball coach at Washburn for three years and has coached baseball and football, part-time, at the high school level in the Denver area the past five years.

Schemmel is the author of the book, “Chosen to Live”, which chronicles his survival of United Airlines Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. Schemmel is also a nationally-known motivational speaker, delivering inspirational talks involving his survival of Flight 232.

During the summers of 2003 and 2004, Schemmel rode a bicycle across the United States, a distance of nearly 7,000 miles as a fundraiser for two Denver area charities. The efforts raised a total of $245, 000.

A native of Madison, S.D., Schemmel and his wife, Diane, reside in Littleton with their daughter, Maggie and son, Ryan.