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JP Dellacamera enters his third season with the Atlanta Thrashers television broadcast team alongside analyst Darren Eliot providing the play-by-play for the Thrashers television network.
Dellacamera has called thousands of hockey, soccer and collegiate basketball games during more than 30 years of extensive play-by-play experience in radio and television for various networks, including NBC, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, MSG Network, Discovery Network, TNT and the former CNN/SI network.
In addition to serving as play-by-play announcer for the Thrashers television network since the 2003-04 season, Dellacamera called six of Atlanta's games in April 2002. His hockey broadcasting experience includes the 2004 World Cup of Hockey for ESPN and ESPN2, and four seasons of calling Stanley Cup Playoff games for that network (1998-2000 and 2004).
During his career, Dellacamera handled play-by-play announcing for the Springfield Falcons (AHL) on local cable in 2001, and called Chicago Wolves games on SportsChannel Midwest from 1994-96, and the "IHL Game of the Week" for Prime Network in 1993-94.
The native of Waltham, Mass., served as play-by-play announcer for both men's and women's soccer at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, for NBC during the network's groundbreaking 24-hour-a-day coverage. He's also covered soccer for ESPN International, including the UEFA Champions League and Italy's Serie A.
Dellacamera has spent the past six seasons as the play-by-play announcer for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer for the Madison Square Garden Network, and called his fifth consecutive MLS Cup for ABC in the fall of 2005. He has hosted numerous soccer shows on ESPN International, and has handled play-by-play for six consecutive men's soccer World Cups from 1986-2006, and the women's World Cup in 1995, 1999, and 2003. In 2005, Dellacamera was the play-by-play voice of the USA Men's National Soccer Team as it went through World Cup qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
During his career, Dellacamera has also broadcast WUSA games on TNT and the former CNN/SI during the league's inaugural season in 2001, co-hosted "Inside WUSA Soccer" for Discovery Network and CNN/SI that season, and called Big East men's and women's conference soccer tournament games, Atlantic-10 men's basketball regular-season and conference tournament contests and the University of Kansas men’s basketball team during the 1988-89 and 1989-90 seasons, and also served as the voice of the Missouri Valley Conference from 1988-93.
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