FHS athletic director recognized with national award

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Fishers High School Athletic Director Jim Brown was recognized with a nationwide award last month by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, a professional organization which supports athletic administrators.

Brown has 27 years of experience as an athletic director, and he was one of nine recognized with a Distinguished Service Award at the National Athletic Directors Conference in San Antonio, Texas, according to a news release.

This is Brown’s seventh year at FHS, having been one of the administrators brought in to build the athletic program right from the school’s start.

He said the most rewarding aspect of the job was seeing student involvement in the program grow each successive year.

“Every year we’ve had more and more (students) get involved in athletics,” Brown said.

Brown and Jon Miles are the athletic directors at a school with 19 head coaches and 63 assistant coaches.

He said when FHS was still new, the big challenge was hiring and working with coaches to set schedules. Taking on opponents with openings in their schedule sometimes created tough traveling conditions before games close to home could be arranged.

Even today, there remains something different to tackle every day, according to Brown.

His responsibilities, in addition to the supervision of the coaches and assistants, include budgetary maintenance and development, buying and maintaining equipment and keeping on top of transportation and facilities for all of FHS’ teams.

Brown racked up 25 years of experience at Triton High School in Fairland before coming to Fishers, and he wasn’t just an athletic director. He also served as a track coach, teacher and assistant principal.

“I accept this for anybody I’ve ever worked for because they’re a part of that,” Brown said. “It’s just my name on it, but that name represents a lot of people throughout the state and throughout the country.”


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