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SECTION EIGHT The IHSAA Board and Administrators

IHSAA board member, Deborah Watson, principal at Fort Wayne
Snider High School, awards a medal after the 3A boys basketball
state championship game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

MEET THE EDUCATORS WHO The Indiana High School Athletic Association is
comprised of 412 Indiana high schools, both public
COMPRISE THE LEADERSHIP and private, who elect a board of directors that, in

OF THE IHSAA turn, hires a commissioner and executive staff.

All board members are educators, men and women
who have been hired by their respective school
districts as superintendents, principals or athletic
directors. As the photograph at the top of this page
illustrates, they play a “hands on” role at the IHSAA,
doing everything from helping to determine policy to
presenting championship and runner-up awards at
all 21 state final tournament events.

Working hand-in-hand with the commissioner and
administrative staff, they provide informed, dedi-
cated, inspired leadership at the IHSAA, enabling the
association to provide an array of essential services
to its member schools and myriad opportunities to
160,000 Indiana high school student-athletes.

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