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SECTION FIVE 2014-15: A YEAR IN REVIEW

2014-15: A YEAR OF

ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE

In all probability, the majority of people who read An Evolving Association
this review of the 2014-15 school year will have
attended at least one high school sporting event At the beginning of the school year, the IHSAA
in recent months. If you are one of them, you welcomed two new schools to the association
have witnessed “the positive” about high school including Gambold Preparatory Magnet High
sports in ways that words cannot describe. Few School in Indianapolis and Traders Point
activities buoy the soul and nurture the spirit Christian Academy in Whitestown, bringing the
more than seeing high school student-athletes total school membership for 2014-15 to 410. The
excel in their given sport. The phrase that has IHSAA continues to welcome new schools that
become synonymous with the IHSAA—“pure meet membership requirements.
spirit, pure sport”—is a well-chosen one.
An Active Administration and
The purpose of this report is to summarize the An Engaged Membership
work behind the scenes that has made these
activities possible, work undertaken by the As society changes at an unprecedented pace, the
IHSAA board and administrative staff, high IHSAA continues to demonstrate its flexibility
school principals and superintendents, coaches and responsiveness.
and athletic directors, parents and volunteers,
and—most significantly—by the approximately For example, five directors were elected to the
160,000 student-athletes who do a remarkable board by the membership during the 2014-15
job of balancing their classroom responsibil- school year, and attendance during fall and spring
ities with the discipline required to be a high regional principal meetings continued to be strong.
school athlete. In May, the IHSAA Board of Directors voted on 43
amendments to the By-Laws, 28 of which passed.
Here are just a few examples of the activities that The impetus for many of these changes came from
took place during the 2014-15 school year. member-schools and/or related organizations such
as state coaches’ associations.

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