Jerry Schemmel is a Radio Announcer for the Colorado Rockies, a position he has held for 13 seasons. He 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.
Schemmel twice rode a bicycle across the United States, as a fundraiser for two Denver area charities. Then, in June of 2015, he successfully completed the Race Across America, as part of a two man cycling relay team, covering 3,000 miles in seven and a half days, to win the overall two person relay division. A documentary about the effort, called Godspeed, was released in the fall of 2016. In September, 2017, Schemmel set the age group record in the Race Across Colorado, a 468 mile bicycle ride from the Utah border to the Kansas border.
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 for three years. Schemmel grew up in Madison, SD and now resides in Denver, CO. He has two adult children, Maggie and Ryan, and three grandchildren.
In each of Jerry’s presentations, he shares with his audience a completely life changing event, his survival of a commercial airline crash, United Flight 232, that took the lives of 112 people.
Speaking Topics:
- We Are All Survivors: Jerry will take the audience through the harrowing experience of the crash of United Flight 232, and explain how all of us have a plane crash, how we are all survivors. And then more importantly, how we should as survivors.
- Chosen To Live: The title to Jerry's Book is “Chosen To Live.” Jerry will address how he feels we were ALL chosen to live. And then how we should reflect that in how we live our lives.
- Just Keep Moving: Jerry will talk about how his life’s mantra, “Just Keep Moving,” that literally saved his life. And how it might do the same for his audience.
- Catching A Second Wind: Jerry will provide motivation for moving past a life of mediocrity and routine and finding true meaning in everyday living.
