Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association

Each year, the members of the KIAAA are proud to award the prestigious Jack Dressler Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Scholarship to four deserving Kansas student-athletes. Scholarships are sponsored by Vype Magazine.


Membership in the Kansas Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association is a dual membership of the KIAAA and the NIAAA (National Interscholastic Athletic Administrator Association).


In January of 1969, Elmer “Carp” Carpenter asked Art Newcomer if he would like to attend the Minnesota Secondary School Athletic Directors Conference in Minneapolis. At this conference, both men discussed the idea of starting a Kansas Secondary School Athletic Directors Association.