Robert Faulkens, Assistant Commissioner
Sports: Boys Baseball, Boys Football, Boys Wrestling, Unified Flag Football
Email: rfaulkens@ihsaa.org
Robert Faulkens joined the Indiana High School Athletic Association as an Assistant Commissioner on January 10, 2011, and administers the sports of football, unified flag football, wrestling and baseball. Additionally, he convenes the IHSAA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee and coordinates the IHSAA Student Advisory Committee and Student Leadership Conference.
Robert has served the IHSAA at the national level with the NFHS as a committee member for football, wrestling, baseball, and Sports Medicine. Additionally, he has, on several occasions, served as facilitator and presenter at the NFHS Summer Meeting.
Faulkens served as a member of the IHSAA Board of Directors beginning in January 2009. He spent 23 years in high school education including the last five as principal at Crispus Attucks, an historic IPS high school. While at the school, he helped re-start its athletics program after 21 years as a junior high school. In 2007, Crispus Attucks was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a "Magnet School of Distinction" during his time there.
Prior to his arrival at Crispus Attucks, Faulkens was an assistant principal at MSD of Pike Township (1999-2005) and Lawrence North High School (1994-99). He also taught geography, world history and U.S. history at Ben Davis High School (1993-94) and South Wayne Junior High School (1989-93). There he coached football, basketball, track, and baseball and provided leadership within a pair of area youth sports organizations.
Faulkens was a three-sport athlete at the prep and collegiate levels playing football, basketball, and baseball. He graduated from South Bend’s LaSalle High School in 1980 and earned a B.A. degree in economics from Earlham College in Richmond in 1984. He went on to earn an M.S. degree in education administration from Butler University in 1995 and an Ed.S in urban education at Indiana State University.
Robert and his wife, Phyllis Armstrong reside in Indianapolis, and they have two adult children, Tessa and Nigel.