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Jack 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. Carnefix, who joined the league in November 2000, is also the elected Secretary for the ECHL Board of Governors.
Overseeing the league’s communications department, Carnefix is responsible for media relations for the ECHL, writing all press releases and disseminating information for the league and overseeing the editorial content of ECHL This Week and ECHL Today as well as content and production for league publications. He coordinates and assists the media relations contacts for each of the member clubs including serving as the liaison for statistical information.
He is responsible for the creation and implementation of content on the official league web site, ECHL.com, posting over 2,400 stories in 2005 and increasing traffic more than 170 percent since 2003. Carnefix helped create and handles maintenance and implementation of content on the ECHL.com Network.
Carnefix works in conjunction with the host team on press releases, press conferences and other avenues to increase media and public awareness for the annual ECHL All-Star Game while also coordinating the online audio and video productions. He oversees the media requirements for the Kelly Cup Playoffs and also facilitates the communications tract at the annual league meetings, including agenda creation and speaker selection.
Carnefix came to the ECHL 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. He received the inaugural West Coast Hockey League Public Relations Director of the Year award in 1999 and won the award again the following season. Carnefix spent seven years as the director of operations for the Oklahoma State University baseball team and three years as the assistant sports information director at Oklahoma State.
Born in Kingsville, Texas, Carnefix received his bachelor's degree in journalism - news editorial from Oklahoma State University. He and his wife, Rashel, who is an Assistant Director for Campus Information Services at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, reside in North Brunswick, New Jersey. | 