WIAA Executive Director Dave Anderson to Retire

Saturday, December 5th, 2020 -- 9:09 AM

(WIAA Release) - The WIAA Board of Control accepted the retirement of Executive Director Dave Anderson, effective on July 30, 2021, in closed session of its December meeting on Friday. 

“The WIAA has been my home, my family and much of my life for the past 22 years, and I am grateful,” Anderson said. “It has always been the people and purpose that has defined the quality of every work experience, and within this office and membership, there are no finer people to work with.

The Board will conduct a virtual meeting on Dec. 10, 2021 to outline and determine the process for hiring a successor. Anderson, 67, assumed the role of executive director of the Association on Aug. 1, 2009, following the retirement of Doug Chickering. He is just the fifth executive director since the position was created in 1924.

Under his leadership and guidance, the membership thrived during his 12-year tenure as executive director. He is credited with eliminating membership dues and fees, providing concussion insurance to every member school student-athlete and eliminating the football scenario of three games in 10 days, transitioning to five divisions in basketball and the relocating of the girls basketball tournament to Green Bay, maintaining the association’s ownership of streaming rights, implementing on-line State Tournament ticketing, advising on an improved conference realignment process, affirming the membership’s sportsmanship principles, executing fiscal responsibility, and leading and navigating the association through the COVID-19 epidemic.

Anderson came to the WIAA in 1998 as an assistant to the director, and in 2002 he was named deputy director after having been promoted to assistant director a year earlier. 

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