Commerce-ex Heath to broadcast Rice games

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July 3, 2012

Commerce-ex Heath to broadcast Rice games

Anonymous IMG/Rice Sports The Herald-Banner Tue Jul 03, 2012, 12:45 PM CDT

GREENVILLE — Former Commerce Tiger J.P. Heath, the primary voice of Rice Baseball for the past four seasons, has been hired by IMG/Rice Sports Marketing to become the primary talent for all Rice Athletics broadcasting initiatives.

Heath will serve as the Owls play-by-play voice for football, basketball, baseball and soccer as well as host the weekly Rice Coaches Show on AM 1560 The Game. He will also manage the Owls broadcast team for football and coordinate the broadcast for women’s basketball. In addition to his broadcast duties, Heath will also be active in creating, marketing and implementing new broadcasting promotional packages.

“The expanded role that we’ve created for JP goes beyond the broadcast booth in order to maximize the potential of each broadcast,” said Sam Torres, Sr. Associate General Manager, IMG Rice Sports Marketing, which manages the multi-media rights for Rice Athletics. “Our vision was to create an identifiable brand around the Owls sports broadcasts, promotions and other initiatives.”

“For 15 years, I’ve pursued the dream of moving up to handle play-by-play at a Division I school and I knew this was a perfect opportunity for me,” Heath said. “I have loved every minute of my time working with the Rice baseball team and it was an honor to be offered the chance to expand that role and take active role in promoting the men and women who compete for Rice.”

In addition to his three seasons behind the mike for Rice baseball, Heath has handled the football and basketball play-by-play at Texas A&M Commerce. He has been a familiar voice to sports fans in East Texas for the past 12 years, also calling action for Angelina College and Stephen F. Austin University in addition to various state playoff appearances for Lufkin, Diboll and Forney.

In 2008, the Commerce native won the Angelina County Golden Anvil Award, given annually for public service, for his non-stop news coverage during Hurricane Ike. He was the only local radio reporter live during Hurricane Rita and was one of the first nationally to report on the space shuttle Columbia tragedy in February 2003. He was a Houston Press Club nominee for Best Talk Show in 2005, for “The Porch.”

Heath graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce in 2000 with a degree in English and a minor in Radio-TV and was a standout basketball player for the Commerce Tigers.

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