Jones Angell

Monrovie Jones Angell IV (born 1979 in Sanford, North Carolina), known professionally as Jones Angell, is the current play-by-play radio announcer for the North Carolina Tar Heels football and basketball programs.

Early life

Angell spent most of his childhood in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He grew up listening to Woody Durham and Mick Mixon calling Tar Heel football and basketball games on the radio with his family.

Early career

Angell started out his career calling high school football and baseball games in Jacksonville, North Carolina in 1999.

Angell's first job with the Tar Heel Sports Network was calling play-by-play for a Little League Baseball game for WIZS while still an intern. John Rose, who was the engineer for the Tar Heel Sports Network at the time, is part of the family who owns WIZS.

Angell continued to call high school football games while still an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill. Prior to becoming the voice of the Tar Heels, Angell was best known for providing color and later play-by-play commentary for Tar Heel baseball from 2000 to 2011, and for working alongside Durham and his staff as a host and color analyst for football and men's basketball broadcasts from 2005 until 2011.

As assistant director of new media at UNC Chapel Hill, Angell produced many features that have been shown on the video boards at Kenan Stadium and the Dean Smith Center.

Angell feels this call sparked his relationship with the Tar Heel fanbase and says people still talk to him about this particular call.

When the 2016-17 basketball team won the school's sixth NCAA title, Angell ended the game by saying:

His use of "dadgum" was a nod to basketball coach Roy Williams' frequent use of the word.

Two of Jones Angell's most memorable basketball calls occurred during the 2021-22 basketball season, the first under Coach Hubert Davis, in which the Tar Heels upset Duke twice. The first one came in the final home game of legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski:And in his final game in Cameron, Coach K takes an L... courtesy of the Tar Heels. And when the Tar Heels, an #8 seed, knocked of #2 seed Duke in the Final Four, the first such meeting in the storied history of the rivalry, Angell remarked:2 seconds... 1 second! Ding dong, Duke is done! Angell called part of the 2014 Tar Heel baseball season for ESPN3 and WatchESPN.

Angell also wrote articles for the now-defunct magazines Tar Heel Monthly and CAROLINA: the Magazine, as well as for GoHeels.com.

Angell co-hosts a podcast, Carolina Insider, that launched on September 20, 2016, in a partnership with Learfield Communications and podcast provider DGital Media. Angell's co-host is Adam Lucas, and a contributor to Tar Heel Sports Network broadcasts. Angell worked with Lucas, who provided color commentary, on Tar Heel Sports Network coverage of Tar Heel baseball as early as 2004.

Personal life

Angell is married with two children.