Kim Becker is the television studio host for the Utah Mammoth, fronting the club’s pregame and postgame coverage. Before working in hockey, Kim Becker spent nearly a decade as a professional figure skater with Disney on Ice, touring more than forty countries, and came to broadcasting after being handed a microphone in her final year with the show.
| Fast facts: Kim Becker | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Hosting pregame and postgame coverage of the Utah Mammoth |
| Current role | Television studio host |
| Employer | SEG Media, the Mammoth’s broadcast operation |
| Appointed | Announced 4 September 2024, for the franchise’s first season in Utah |
| Grew up | Denver, Colorado |
| Education | Bachelor of Fine Arts in broadcast journalism, Chapman University, 2020 |
| Before broadcasting | Professional figure skater, Disney on Ice, roughly ten years |
| Previous roles | Sports Illustrated, University of Arizona football, Altitude TV |
| Family | Her father played college football and for the Chicago Bears |
Who is Kim Becker?
Kim Becker hosts the studio coverage around a Utah Mammoth television broadcast, which means the pregame build-up and the postgame reaction rather than the game itself. SEG Media named her television studio host on 4 September 2024, in an announcement that outlined the full broadcast team for the franchise’s first season after the move from Arizona. Her biography sits on the Utah broadcast team page alongside the rest of the crew.
She was announced the same day as rinkside reporter Sarah Merrifield, play-by-play announcer Matt McConnell and analysts Dominic Moore and Nick Olczyk. Chris Armstrong, then the club’s president, called it a talented and experienced group. The channels and streams for every club are in our guide to how to watch NHL hockey.
Was Kim Becker a Disney on Ice skater?
Yes, and it is the most unusual line on any NHL broadcast crew. Kim Becker was a competitive figure skater as a child and joined Disney on Ice at eighteen on what was meant to be a one-year contract. It became close to a decade on the road.
She told KUTV in Salt Lake City that the tour took her through forty-four countries, that she performed several shows a day, and that she played Disney queen characters while lip-syncing the songs in whichever language the audience spoke. Her employer biography puts the figure at more than forty countries. The University of Arizona’s own staff bio adds that five of those years were in Europe and that she worked as a media coordinator for four of them.
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How did Kim Becker get from skating to broadcasting?
By being handed a live microphone. In her final year with Disney on Ice, the producers gave her the opening minutes of the show to welcome the audience, and she has said that is what pointed her to sports broadcasting.
She went to Chapman University afterward and took a Bachelor of Fine Arts in broadcast journalism in 2020, then worked as a digital host and reporter for Sports Illustrated, covering several NFL teams as well as USC football and basketball. In August 2021, she became the team reporter for Arizona Football at the University of Arizona. From there, she moved to Altitude TV in Denver as a sports betting host, and ended up hosting Avalanche LIVE before Utah called.
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What is Kim Becker’s career?
| Year | Role | Outlet |
|---|---|---|
| From age eighteen | Professional figure skater, roughly ten years, more than forty countries, media coordinator for four years | Disney on Ice |
| 2020 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, broadcast journalism | Chapman University |
| After graduating | Digital host and reporter, covering NFL teams and USC football and basketball | Sports Illustrated |
| August 2021 | Team reporter, Arizona Football | University of Arizona |
| Before hockey | In-game host | Colorado Rockies and Denver Broncos |
| Denver years | Sports betting host, then host of Avalanche LIVE | Altitude TV |
| September 2024 | Television studio host | Utah Hockey Club, later the Utah Mammoth |
Kim Becker worked professionally in four sports before hosting a hockey broadcast. Figure skating as a performer, baseball and American football as an in-game host for the Colorado Rockies and the Denver Broncos, college football at Arizona, and then hockey.
The Altitude years are the direct bridge. She hosted Avalanche LIVE for the Colorado Avalanche’s network before Utah hired her, so her first regular hockey work was on another club’s coverage.
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Did Kim Becker play hockey?
No. She skated for twenty years, as she told KUTV, but all of it on figure skates. Asked to try hockey skates on the Delta Center ice for that interview, she said flatly that she could not do it.
Who is Kim Becker’s father?
The University of Arizona’s staff biography states that her father played college football and then for the Chicago Bears, and that this is where her own interest in the sport came from.
It explains the shape of her career. The in-game hosting for the Broncos, the NFL coverage for Sports Illustrated, and the college football job at Arizona all sit on the football side, and hockey came last.
Where is Kim Becker from?
Denver, Colorado. Arizona’s staff biography says she grew up there as a competitive figure skater, which also explains the Altitude years: the Colorado Rockies, the Denver Broncos, and Avalanche LIVE are all Denver jobs, and she worked in the city where she grew up.
Utah came after that, and she has stayed visible in Salt Lake City beyond the broadcast itself, appearing on KUTV’s Talkin’ Hockey with Dave Fox across the Olympic break.
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How old is Kim Becker?
She was born around 1992, having graduated from Chapman University in May 2020.
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