Jack Lorri spent 38 years as the Voice of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball team, a tenure that lasted from 1968-2006 and covered five head coaches and many of the greatest moments in Notre Dame basketball history.
Among the notable games Lorri brought to the air were seven Fighting Irish victories over No. 1-ranked teams, including the game that broke UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in 1974. He broadcast for 11 Sweet Sixteen teams and Notre Dame’s 1978 Final Four team.
Lorri came to Indiana in 1967 as the sports director at WTRC in Elkhart, broadcasting high school sports play-by-play and hosting local shows. He also covered the IHSAA basketball State Finals for 21 years. He left WTRC in 1985 to join Tribune Radio Networks in Chicago, where he coordinated statewide coverage, before returning full-time to Indiana in 1988 as the coordinator of the Notre Dame basketball network for Host Communications. Prior to coming to Indiana, he worked in Lexington, Kentucky for two years, broadcasting University of Kentucky basketball.
Lorri was also the sports director of WSJV-TV in Elkhart from 1967-80, a sports columnist for the Elkhart Truth for three years, and the voice of the IHSAA state swim meet for two years. He was the voice of the South Bend Silverhawks baseball team from 1993-98. He has been honored by the Indiana Associated Press five times, and was inducted into the Elkhart County Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
A native of Norwich, CT, Jack has been married to wife Anita for 46 years. They have two children, Catherine and Daniel, and three grandchildren. Lorri also served in the United States Air Force from 1953-58.