ABOUT JOHN LEAHY
John Leahy is a broadcasting professional with thirteen years of play-by-play
experience in the sports field. He is curre
ntly the voice of
Merrimack
College ice hockey as well as
Kalamazoo Kings baseball. Merrimack College, located in North Andover MA, competes
with nine other colleges including Boston College, Boston University,
Northeastern, New Hampshire, Vermont, Providence, UMass Lowell, UMass
(Amherst), and Maine, to form Hockey East, the most elite college hockey
conference in the world today. During the 2005-06 season John appeared on
ESPNU as a rinkside reporter at a Merrimack home game against the Maine
Black Bears. Merrimack hockey broadcasts can be heard live
here. The Kalamazoo
Kings play in the Frontier League of professional baseball and play in a
twelve team league, with franchises in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri,
Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
John was also named the voice of Merrimack College men's and women's basketball in the 2006-2007 season, broadcasting the home games over the Internet on ne-10.tv, a pay-per-view online Internet site, and the official webcasting home of the Northeast-10 conference.
On November 27, 2007, John was behind the mike for his first ever Division 1 basketball game at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI, as the Maine Black Bears took on the Providence Friars. He filled in on WVOM, the Maine radio station, as a replacement for the regular play-by-play announcer, Ron Lisnet.
From 2005-2007, John was the voice of the North Shore Spirit baseball team in the Can-Am Professional Baseball League, based in Lynn, MA. They competed with the Brockton Rox, the Quebec City Capitales, the Nashua Pride, the Worcester Tornadoes, the New Haven County Cutters, the New Jersey Jackals, the Sussex County (NJ) Skyhawks, the Atlantic City Surf, and the Can-Am Grays. The games were aired on 1510 AM (The Zone) in Boston.
John has done play-by-play for the
Yawkey
League of Boston on the Comcast television network. The Yawkey League is
comprised of collegiate level baseball teams located in the metropolitan Boston
area with franchises blanketing the entire metro region.
John's initial broadcast experiences were rooted in high
school play-by-play, covering Stoughton (MA) High School hockey, football, and
basketball for ten years. He's also covered
sports in Mansfield, Canton, Brookline, and Saugus. He is a long
standing member of the American Sportscasters Association.
2008 KALAMAZOO KINGS BASEBALL BROADCAST SCHEDULE
FOR INFORMATION ON THE KINGS, VISIT www.kalamazookings.com/ .
ALL TIMES EASTERN.
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME | AUDIO LINK |
| 5/21 | @ Florence | 11:05 AM | LISTEN |
| 5/22 | @ Florence | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/23 | @ Florence | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/24 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/25 | MIDWEST | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/26 | MIDWEST | 1:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/27 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/28 | WASHINGTON | 10:05 AM | LISTEN |
| 5/29 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/30 | @ Traverse City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 5/31 | @ Traverse City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/1 | @ Traverse City | 5:35 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/3 | WINDY CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/4 | WINDY CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/5 | WINDY CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/6 | ROCKFORD | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/7 | ROCKFORD | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/8 | ROCKFORD | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/10 | @ Windy City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/11 | @ Windy City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/12 | @ Windy City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/13 | @ Rockford | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/14 | @ Rockford | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/15 | @ Rockford | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/16 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/17 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/18 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/19 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/20 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/21 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/22 | @ Florence | 2:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/23 | @ Florence | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/24 | @ Florence | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/25 | @ Chillicothe | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/26 | @ Chillicothe | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/27 | @ Chillicothe | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/28 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/29 | MIDWEST | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 6/30 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/1 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/2 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/3 | TRAVERSE CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/4 | CHILLICOTHE | 5:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/5 | CHILLICOTHE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/6 | CHILLICOTHE | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/8 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/9 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/10 | @ Southern Illinois | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/11 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/12 | @ River City | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/13 | @ River City | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/18 | FLORENCE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/19 | FLORENCE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/20 | FLORENCE | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/21 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/22 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/23 | WASHINGTON | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/24 | @ Chillicothe | TBA | LISTEN |
| 7/25 | @ Chillicothe | TBA | LISTEN |
| 7/26 | @ Chillicothe | TBA | LISTEN |
| 7/27 | FLORENCE | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/28 | FLORENCE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/29 | FLORENCE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/30 | @ Evansville | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 7/31 | @ Evansville | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/1 | @ Evansville | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/2 | @ Gateway | 8:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/3 | @ Gateway | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/4 | @ Gateway | 1:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/5 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/6 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/7 | EVANSVILLE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/8 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/9 | GATEWAY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/10 | GATEWAY | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/12 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/13 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/14 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/15 | CHILLICOTHE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/16 | CHILLICOTHE | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/17 | CHILLICOTHE | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/19 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/20 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/21 | SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/22 | RIVER CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/23 | RIVER CITY | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/24 | RIVER CITY | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/26 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/27 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/28 | @ Washington | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/29 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/30 | MIDWEST | 7:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 8/31 | MIDWEST | 4:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/1 | @ Traverse City | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/2 | @ Traverse City | 6:05 PM | LISTEN |
| 9/3 | @ Traverse City | 5:05 PM | LISTEN |
| PLAYOFFS TBD | - | - | - |