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2016–17: IHSAA Leadership

Meet the IHSAA Executive Staff

Going above and beyond

If you wouldn’t mind giving up 20 weekends Led by Commissioner Bobby Cox, the
a year with family and friends, including eight-member IHSAA executive staff is
most of Thanksgiving weekend, to attend responsible for providing daily service to its
IHSAA state championship events… if you 409 member-schools, their administrators,
would agree to travel the state on most their coaches and their student-athletes.
Friday nights during the school year to
attend athletic events at member-schools… Being a member of the executive staff
if you don’t mind eating more than your fair requires a commitment of time and energy
share of hot dogs and popcorn… if you have that goes well beyond the norm. It’s a tough
the patience to listen to dozens of requests job. And yet, this group’s tireless efforts
from parents to bend the rules in behalf of provide a level playing field for the Asso-
their children and then respond to those ciation’s member-schools and its 160,000
requests with impartiality and respect, student-athletes.
then you have an idea of what it’s like to be
a member of the IHSAA executive staff.

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