Phone: 317-846-6601
Fax: 317-575-4244 Website:
www.ihsaa.org
Blake Ress, Commissioner
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MEDIA INFORMATION
June 18, 2007
Contact:
E-mail: jwille@ihsaa.org
IHSAA SPONSORING COUNTRY’S LARGEST STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
With the goal of fostering positive traditions
through citizenship and sportsmanship, the Indiana High School Athletic
Association is sponsoring the Fourth Annual IHSAA Student Leadership Conference
on Tuesday, June 19, at
This year’s conference is set to draw a record 850 participants
from 98 schools around the state making it the largest single-day student leadership
conference in the country organized by a state athletic association. By
comparison, the 2006 conference drew 650 students from 85 schools.
Each of the IHSAA’s 406 member
schools was invited to send a team of four to eight student-athletes and an
adult facilitator to the day-long conference which
will include a handful of national speakers as well as over 40 different discussion
sessions that the attendees may choose from.
Students-athletes
will have the opportunity to meet and interact with each other while also hearing
from Tom Zupancic, Senior Vice President of Sales and
Marketing for the Indianapolis Colts; Stephen Bargatze,
an internationally-acclaimed comedian and motivational
speaker and; Sherard Clinkscales,
Scott McGowan and Gregory Hobbs, of Aftersport Group,
an Indianapolis-based organization dedicated to preparing student-athletes for
careers after sports.
“We’ve seen
an increase in attendance each year we’ve sponsored this event and it’s quickly
grown into the largest of its kind in the country which is an exciting
development,” says Assistant Commissioner Sandy Searcy, who coordinates the
Student Leadership Conference on behalf of the IHSAA. “We hope to offer the
participants some useful life tools they can take away to help not only
themselves but hopefully share with their classmates and their communities.”
Among the
many topics included in the discussion sessions are:
Leadership, Sportsmanship, College Preparation, Building Team Morale,
Athletic-Related Careers, Building Winning Traditions, Mental Preparation,
Balancing Athletics and Academics and IHSAA Issues and Answers.
Members of
the media are welcome to attend the event and should check-in at the
Registration Desk at Entrance 1 on the south side of
4th Annual IHSAA Student Leadership Conference
When: Tuesday, June 19, 2007; 9:30 am ET / 8:30 am CT
Where:
To learn
more about this year’s conference, click here.
Schools
that will be represented at the conference include:
Bellmont
Ben Davis
Boone Grove
Boonville
Brebeuf Jesuit
Brownsburg
Cascade
Caston
Center Grove
DeKalb
Delta
Eastern Greene
Elwood
Fishers
Franklin Community
Garrett
Gibson Southern
Greenfield-Central
Harrison (
Henryville
Heritage Hills
Indian Creek
Indpls. Cardinal Ritter
Indpls. Cathedral
Indpls.
Indpls. Lutheran
Indpls. Manual
Indpls.
LaPorte
Mississinewa
Mooresville
North Central (Indpls.)
North Knox
North Posey
Northridge
NorthWood
Oak Hill
Penn
Pike
Pioneer
Restoration Christian
Roncalli
Rushville
Shenandoah
Southmont
Triton Central
Warren Central
Wes-Del
Western Boone
Westview
Wheeler
Whiteland
Whitko
Zionsville
NEWS & NOTES FROM AROUND THE STATE
Have an interesting note? Please e-mail IHSAA Sports
Information Director
Western’s Larry Miller is retiring from the Western School Corporation after
29 years including the last 17 as Athletic Director.
Three new coaches were
recently announced at Elwood. Candice
Williams has been named the new head coach in girls
basketball after serving as an assistant coach at
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