VoicesScott Ackerson, Public Address Announcer
Scott will be in his sixth year as the Public Address annoucer for the Loggers in 2010 and has a great passion for sports announcing. During the off-season, he enjoys his role as the p.a. voice of the Onalaska Hilltoppers High School Hockey Team and is a former radio sports broadcaster of seven years in his prior career. Aside from his love of sports, Scott is currently employed as a financial accountant with a local company. Scott is a married to Berta, a life long La Crosse native and has two children, a son Nathan who is a freshman in college and a daughter Rachel who will be a senior in high school this fall and loves going to Logger games in the summer. In his spare time Scott enjoys his role as "Grandpa Scott" to Berta’s six grandchildren along with vacation travel around the country. Voice of the Loggers, John Pappadopoulos
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The "Voice of the Loggers", Mr. John Pappadopoulos (Pop-a-dop-a-lus), returns again in 2010 for his eighth season having called every game but one since the Loggers inception. "Pops" calls the action of all 70 regular season games on the Logger Radio Network and is the longest tenured play-by-play man in the Northwoods League. Pappadopoulos brings a great deal of play-by-play experience with him to the Loggers, most recently in the La Crosse area. "Pops" served as the voice of the La Crosse Night Train of the N.I.F.L. and before that served as the backup voice of the La Crosse Bobcats CBA basketball team. For the past five years, he has also worked as the news and sports director at WCOW/WKLJ. Before coming to the Coulee Area, the New Jersey native worked in Boston as an on-air sports caster on Sports Radio WEEI. During his eleven years in broadcasting he has worked as a reporter or broadcaster for three different Minor League baseball teams and will now add the Loggers to his list. John met his wife, Polly,when he moved to La Crosse in 2000 and they have a daughter named Olivia. |
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