2018 Award Winners

Each year the KIAAA Recognizes the following categories:

    District ADs of the Year
    Middle School AD of the Year
   KIAAA Promising AD of the Year
    Carpenter Community Service Award
    Sportswriter of the Year
    Sportscaster of the Year
    NIAAA State Award of Merit

The KIAAA is proud to announce the award winners for 2018.  The current winners will be recognized at the Annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at the Four Points by Sheaton Hotel and Convention Center in Manhattan, Kansas.

• Shane Backhus, McPherson HS
  District 1 AD of the Year

  

• Darin Gagnebin, Paola HS
  District 2 AD of the Year

  

• Angelo Giacalone, Shawnee Mission Northwest HS
  District 3 AD of the Year

  

• Jason Menard, Douglass HS
  District 4 AD of the Year

  

• Justin Briggs, Comanche MS, Dodge City
  Middle School AD of the Year

  

• Mike Church, Wichita North HS
  Newcomer Promising AD of the Year

  

• Ben Sutherlin, Turner HS
  Newcomer Promising AD of the Year

  

• Terry Ostmeyer, Wheatland HS
  NIAAA State Award of Merit

  

• Steve Sell
  Sportswriter of the Year

  

• Devin Hanney
  Sportscaster of the Year

  

• Fred Becker, Newton HS
  KIAAA Carp Award

  

• Harold Bohm, Cheney
  KIAAA Carp Award