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149alma mater as Butler University%u2019s Director of Sports Marketing and Corporate Sponsorships.Ress announced the hiring of Chris Kaufman as Communications Director on November 28, 2006. Kaufman joined the Association Offi ce after a 16-year career at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, the last eight as the school%u2019s Director of Marketing and Communications.On February 21, 2008, Associate Commissioner Ray Craft announced his retirement effective June 30, 2008. Craft was appointed Assistant Commissioner in July, 1983, and later promoted to Associate Commissioner in 1994. He also served on the IHSAA Board of Directors from 1980-83 while Principal at Shelbyville High School. On April 28, 2008, Phillip E. Gardner, Principal at Wes-Del High School and a member of the IHSAA Board of Directors, was selected by the Executive Committee to serve as an Assistant Commissioner fi lling the vacancy left by Craft. Gardner joined the Association Offi ce after serving 14 years as Principal at Wes-Del (1994-2008) and previously was Principal at Cowan for seven years (1987-94). As a member of the Board of Directors, Gardner had one of the longest tenures in Association history having served continuously since 1990. He was elected president of that group in 1995-96 and also elected chairman of the Executive Committee in 1999-00 and 2002-03.On June 24, 2010, Commissioner Blake Ress announced his intention to retire after 10 1/2 years leading the Association. The title of %u201cCommissioner Emeritus%u201d was bestowed upon Ress on February 1, 2011.On August 6, 2010, the IHSAA Executive Committee appointed Bobby Cox as the eighth commissioner. An assistant commissioner since 2000, Cox assumed his responsibilities on February 1, 2011.On October 7, 2010, Robert Faulkens, principal at Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School in Indianapolis and a member of the IHSAA Board of Directors, was approved as assistant commissioner eff ective January 10, 2011.Theresia Wynns, who had served as an assistant commissioner since 1997, announced her resignation eff ective June 22, 2012, to join the Indianapolis-based National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) as its Director of Sports and Offi cials Education.At its monthly meeting on May 1, 2012, the Executive Committee approved two personnel moves announcing Sandra Walter and Chris Kaufman as assistant commissioners eff ective June 4, 2012.Walter spent 12 years at Lawrence Central High School, the last 10 as athletic director and was active in the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) and Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA).Since becoming Communications Director in 2006, Kaufman had overseen the IHSAA%u2019s marketing eff orts with corporate partners and helped form the IHSAA Champions Television Network.The Executive Committee approved a portion of an Indiana Football Coaches Association (IFCA) proposal on June 22, 2012 in adding a sixth classifi cation to the football state tournament beginning in 2013-14. The Committee also voted in favor of a two-year tournament success factor in each team sport (baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball volleyball), an accumulation of points by which any school would move up one class based on tournament series performance during that time. That measure would take eff ect in 2013-14 as well using tournament results from the prior two years. The Board of Directors formally ratifi ed the Tournament Success Factor at its April 29, 2013 meeting.The IHSAA added its 21st sport and fi rst co-ed one on November 8, 2013 when it approved a state tournament for Unifi ed Track & Field for the spring of 2014.A further enhancement of the IHSAA%u2019s partnership with Special Olympics Indiana allowed IHSAA-member schools to form teams composed equally of students with and without intellectual disabilities to compete for a state championship. Schools scheduled regular season competitions during the spring before two sectionals meets %u2013 one north and one south %u2013 with participants then advancing to the state championship meet held just prior to the start of the IHSAA Boys Track & Field State Finals in Bloomington. Events included were the 100 meter Dash, 400 meter Dash, 4x100 meter Relay, Shot Put and Long Jump.In June 2015, the IHSAA Executive Committee created and formed the IHSAA Foundation History of IHSAA