VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Media-Broadcasting

Rutland

2025 Mal Boright Media Inductee

A broadcast veteran for over 50 years in the state, the talented Jack Healey was named Vermont Sportscaster of the Year for an unprecedented 20 times. 

A native of Topsfield, Mass., he started on the radio in Keene, N.H. and Ticonderoga, N.Y. before moving to Rutland in 1971. He broadcast Rutland High and MSJ football and basketball on WSYB and WHWB radio through the years, calling many state championship games as well as the annual Vt-NH Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl game. He also hosted a weekday morning show, and a long-running Saturday sports talk show on WSYB in Rutland before stepping down in 2020. 

In addition he spent several years as the voice of UVM men’s basketball and then men’s hockey for the Catamounts for around 20 years. He also called games for the Vermont Reds and Mariners of the Eastern League in the 80s and on occasion later, the Vermont Expos and Lake Monsters of the New York Penn League. 

The last two decades he has broadcast collegiate and high school web-streamed games on the Northeast Sports Network and the Little East Network, and since 2018 he is the voice of Castleton University athletics. For many years at NSN he co-hosted a daily sports talk show with fellow VSHOF inductee George Commo.

He is a member of the VPA Hall of Fame, the Vermont Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Castleton Athletics Hall of Fame. The hockey press box at Castleton’s Spartan Arena in Rutland was named the Jack Healey Broadcast Booth in October of 2022.