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Jerry Schemmel | Basketball Play by Play Announcer, Survivor of United Airlines Flight 232

Jerry Schemmel

Basketball Play by Play Announcer, Survivor of United Airlines Flight 232

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Jerry Schemmel, in the fall of 2025, wrapped up his 14th and final season as a Radio Announcer for the Colorado Rockies. He is currently still active in broadcasting, doing college basketball on both radio and TV for the University of Colorado and the University of Northern Colorado. He is also the Head Baseball Coach at Erie High School in Colorado. 

Schemmel was the broadcast voice of the Denver Nuggets for 18 seasons, from 1992 to 2010, also working both radio and television. Prior to the Nuggets, he spent two seasons as a broadcaster for the Minnesota Timberwolves. 

Schemmel is the author of the book, Chosen To Live, which chronicles his survival of the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, IA in 1989 and its subsequent effects on his life. 

In 2015, Schemmel and a relay partner won the Two Person Division of the Race Across America bike race. The pair finished the 3,000 mile race in just over seven days. An award winning documentary, Godspeed, was done about the race and was released in 2017. Schemmel also holds several long distance cycling records in the state of Colorado.

Schemmel earned a law degree in 1985 from Washburn University, after receiving his undergraduate degree from the school in 1982.  He also played baseball at Washburn and later was an assistant coach at the school. He was the Head Baseball Coach at Metro State University in Denver and later an assistant at Colorado Christian University.

Schemmel grew up in Madison, SD and now resides in Frederick, CO. He has two adult children, Maggie and Ryan, and three grandchildren.

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Chosen To Live

In July of 1989, Jerry Schemmel survived one of the worst airline disasters in American aviation history. United Airlines Flight 232, after an in-flight engine explosion, crash landed in Sioux City, IA. 112 of the 296 aboard perished in the accident.

Schemmel’s presentation will include the story of this tragic crash, what happened and why. But more importantly, it will deal with what has happened since the crash. Schemmel will talk about moving through and past post-trauma stress, with a refusal to let the crash stop of him from achieving goals and realizing dreams. He will talk about moving from tragedy to triumph.

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