Brian Ackley serves as the Director of Public Relations and Broadcasting for M2.
Ackley – who spent 35 years in the newspaper industry, covering everything from the Winter Olympics, to Super Bowls to Mike Tyson just finished his fifth season as the MASL Florida Tropics Director of Public Relations and Broadcasting, serving as the "Voice of the Tropics" on their home game broadcasts.
He brings a long history of covering and broadcasting indoor soccer beginning in the second year of the original Major Indoor Soccer league when he covered the Buffalo Stallions. He later covered the Columbus Capitals of the American Indoor Soccer Association, and spent four years as a color analyst and play-by-play voice of the Buffalo Blizzard of the National Professional Soccer League.
A long time broadcaster of high school football in Western New York, he also spent several seasons as the color analyst for NCAA Division I University at Buffalo football and as the play-by-play announcer for UB basketball. Most recently, he served as play-by-play voice for the Florida State High School Athletic Association’s girl’s basketball championships, and was slated to call the FHSAA girls softball championships in the Spring of 2020 before the event was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
He worked for almost five years as Athletic Director at Hilbert College, an NCAA Division III school in Hamburg, N.Y. He and his wife Dr. Lori Shank moved to Central Florida in 2007 where Ackley served as editor of the Lake Wales News, with stints as editor of the Fort Meade Leader and Frostproof News as well. Currently he also assists the City of Lake Wales with their public and community relations, and is a broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Tornadoes of the American Arena League, a professional indoor football team which currently is playing their home games in Lakeland, Florida.
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