Steve King
Steve King has been a race/event announcer and event emcee/commentator for over 30 years as a result of being a race director, reporter, statistician and still a very active competitor.
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Steve King has been a race/event announcer and event emcee/commentator for over 30 years as a result of being a race director, reporter, statistician and still a very active competitor.
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Eileen Bistrisky
Eileen owns and runs Effective Event Management, a multi award-winning company based in Vancouver. She brings extra skills to an Emcee position, having been a script writer, event director and stage manager for over twenty years. As an announcer, she has worked both sporting events and galas, and knows how to gain and keep an audience’s attention. Eileen has a keen eye for the little things like camera angles, photo ops, sponsor branding, crowd control, stage access, and traffic flow when it comes to fine tweaking a stage in any location.In addition to being able to command an audience in English and in French, Eileen takes responsibility for keeping proceedings on-time and on target, jugging multiple presenters, personalities, and activities. This requires a high degree of organization, communication skills, energy, stamina, flexibility, enthusiasm, and spontaneity.
Eileen owns and runs Effective Event Management, a multi award-winning company based in Vancouver. She brings extra skills to an Emcee position, having been a script writer, event director and stage manager for over twenty years. As an announcer, she has worked both sporting events and galas, and knows how to gain and keep an audience’s attention. Eileen has a keen eye for the little things like camera angles, photo ops, sponsor branding, crowd control, stage access, and traffic flow when it comes to fine tweaking a stage in any location.In addition to being able to command an audience in English and in French, Eileen takes responsibility for keeping proceedings on-time and on target, jugging multiple presenters, personalities, and activities. This requires a high degree of organization, communication skills, energy, stamina, flexibility, enthusiasm, and spontaneity.
Matt Hill
Matt Hill is the kind of ball of insatiable energy that reminds us all why we love life. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Matt was always running with a spirit for life and people unmatched by most. His teachers thought that making him run might help quell his endless energy.
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Matt Hill is the kind of ball of insatiable energy that reminds us all why we love life. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, Matt was always running with a spirit for life and people unmatched by most. His teachers thought that making him run might help quell his endless energy.
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PAUL O’CALLAGHAN
He holds PB's of 7:52 for 3000m, 13:29 5000m, 10K 28:20 and a 65:30 half marathon.
He is the Head of Phys.Ed at Glenlyon Norfolk School, an independent school in Victoria. He started his coaching business in 2007 and currently coaches a dozen athletes including Sean Chester, a regular top 3 finisher in races in B.C. Paul fell into announcing at the inaugural Victoria Track Series where he found a forum to share his passion and knowledge of the sport. He commentated and interviewed at the Victoria International Track Classic in 2011 interviewing Dylan Armstrong and Jessica Zelinka. He is also a commentator for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon.
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He holds PB's of 7:52 for 3000m, 13:29 5000m, 10K 28:20 and a 65:30 half marathon.
He is the Head of Phys.Ed at Glenlyon Norfolk School, an independent school in Victoria. He started his coaching business in 2007 and currently coaches a dozen athletes including Sean Chester, a regular top 3 finisher in races in B.C. Paul fell into announcing at the inaugural Victoria Track Series where he found a forum to share his passion and knowledge of the sport. He commentated and interviewed at the Victoria International Track Classic in 2011 interviewing Dylan Armstrong and Jessica Zelinka. He is also a commentator for the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon.
www.aspirerunning.ca
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Ean "Action" Jackson
Jackson was a fat kid. He liked to collect postage stamps and watch TV. At 14, he took up playing poker and smoking cigars. While returning from the pub one night at university, he lost a beer bet that involved running around a track. Shortly thereafter, he hit a telephone pole while skiing and broke a bunch of ribs.
Some say Jackson shook a screw loose when he hit the pole. Like Forrest Gump, he started to run. So far, he has completed over 100 ultramarathon runs, a handful of ultradistance triathlons and some very long swims. Pick an obscure trail. Jackson's probably run it. Mountain peaks? He's probably run them, too. Along the way, he became certified as a coach. He started-up a national team (100-kilometer run) and an organization that promotes free running events (Club Fat Ass).
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Jackson was a fat kid. He liked to collect postage stamps and watch TV. At 14, he took up playing poker and smoking cigars. While returning from the pub one night at university, he lost a beer bet that involved running around a track. Shortly thereafter, he hit a telephone pole while skiing and broke a bunch of ribs.
Some say Jackson shook a screw loose when he hit the pole. Like Forrest Gump, he started to run. So far, he has completed over 100 ultramarathon runs, a handful of ultradistance triathlons and some very long swims. Pick an obscure trail. Jackson's probably run it. Mountain peaks? He's probably run them, too. Along the way, he became certified as a coach. He started-up a national team (100-kilometer run) and an organization that promotes free running events (Club Fat Ass).
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Sheena Miller
Sheena Miller has spent her lifetime in the outdoors pursuing athletics and adventures. Growing up in the Okanagan, Sheena spent many years volunteering around athletic events such as Ironman and knew one day she’d love to do make her way around the course and try some announcing too!
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Sheena Miller has spent her lifetime in the outdoors pursuing athletics and adventures. Growing up in the Okanagan, Sheena spent many years volunteering around athletic events such as Ironman and knew one day she’d love to do make her way around the course and try some announcing too!
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Dave Bullock
Dave has been involved with Ironman Canada since 1991 and was the Race Director of the event for three years, as well as having been the Race Director for the Okanagan Valley's very first triathlon, Penticton's Peach Classic, along with the Bare Bones Duathlon, both of which have been the Provincial Championships on a number of occasions.Click here to read more about Dave...
Dave has been involved with Ironman Canada since 1991 and was the Race Director of the event for three years, as well as having been the Race Director for the Okanagan Valley's very first triathlon, Penticton's Peach Classic, along with the Bare Bones Duathlon, both of which have been the Provincial Championships on a number of occasions.Click here to read more about Dave...
David Jackson
David lives and works in Abbotsford with his wife Jo-Anne where he is a Grade 8
teacher. After growing up in Ontario he moved to Victoria in 2004 to pursue
competitive distance running. David has appreciated the many opportunities and
experiences running has brought him and a lot of this is owed to the high
quality coaches he has had. He started a running club for children in 2012 that
encourages kids to have a healthy lifestyle through the enjoyment of running.
Josh Visser grew up in Penticton, BC and got into freestyle skiing at his home mountain of Apex Mountain Resort. He got into skiing at the young age of 4 and has never left. After graduating the ranks of the Apex Freestyle Ski Team, he moved up to the British Columbia Park and Pipe team and traveled all over Canada and the US for competitions earning podiums at various provincial and national level events. After suffering a torn ACL, he decided to retire from competition and fill the gap at events as an event announcer. As young as 12 years of age, Josh was announcing local freestyle ski events at his home mountain in between his contest runs.
Since retiring from competition, Josh has emceed all sizes of Freestyle Skiing, Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Triathlon and Adventure Race events in western Canada and the US. Some previous events include the FIS Freestyle World Cup in Deer Valley, Utah, Ironman Canada Penticton, The Red Bull 400, The Dew Tour Amature Series and the BC Mountain Bike Cup to name a few. Josh currently is the weekly host of the Fire and Ice Show in Whistler, BC. The weekly show is comprised of some of the top skiers and snowboarders in Canada jumping through a ring of fire to thousands of spectators every Sunday evening in Whistler, BC. As the emcee, Josh is responsible for crowd interactions, sponsor contests/integration and informing the crowd on the tricks and spectacles of the show. In addition to live event emceeing, Josh has also hosted live stream broadcasts for NBC Sports as a part of the 2017 FIS Deer Valley World Cup. Josh is the youngest member of the Backing Events & Sports Team and always brings high energy, humor and entertainment to every event he is involved with while educating every audience big or small. Josh was part of the on-site announcing team at the Sapporo Winter Olympic Games.
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Tony Smith
As well as race announcing, Tony is also in the business of renting out a large inventory of race equipment to other events. Known as the "voice" of Canmore, Alberta, he is recruited to M.C. many large scale community events and celebrations. Before moving to Canmore a few years ago he was a Calgary resident and very active member of the Calgary Triathlon Community for over 20 years. Tony was head triathlon coach at the University Of Calgary for 6 years and is known and very well respected in the local multisport community. He has announced at events such as the Canmore Nordic World Cup Festival, Canmore Winter Carnival, Iron Maiden, Organ Grinder Mtn Bike races, the Granfondo Rockies, Xterra National Champs and the Canada Day celebrations. Tony is an avid xc skier and is also an Hawaii Ironman finisher. He has his own p.a. equipment, truck, camper and large enclosed events trailer. Tony's events website is located at; http://www.facebook.com/l/HAQETN7ApAQHEs0sxW27Y202CUsL7WL8j-xvBwiNQMieSZA/www.grizzlyevents.ca |
