Middle school athletic director recognized

Middle school athletic director recognized

Merrillville, Ind. – The Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association named Jeff Fairbairn the Middle School Athletic Director of the Year!

Fairbairn is in his 10th year as the athletic director at Merrillville Community School Corporation’s Clifford Pierce Middle School and his 16th year teaching. During his time as athletic director, he was the head coach of the high school girls’ track program from 2011 to 2014 and is currently the head coach of the high school girls’ soccer program since 2016.

Fairbairn created a Hall of Athletes showcasing the student athletes in all the sports at Pierce Middle School and established the Pierce Pride program honoring student athletes’ accomplishments in the classroom on their respective athletic teams. In addition, he helped create and now maintains the corporation athletic web page, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages.

He also created and organized the annual “Paint it Pink” cancer awareness night which raises money for the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.