IBCA E-Newsletter

2022 Administrators of the Year

The IBCA has presented Administrator of the Year awards since 2008. Most years, there are three winners, one from each IHSAA district. In some years, as many as four or five winners were named. Congratulations to the 2022 Administrators of the Year – Garland Hudson II of South Bend Washington High School, Pat Mapes of Perry Township Schools and Tom Black of East Central High School.

District 1

Garland Hudson II, athletic director, South Bend Washington High School

Garland Hudson II is in his eighth year as athletic director at South Bend Washington, where he oversees a 20-sport program for the Panthers. He frequently Tweets about the successes of the SBW teams and individuals, and he always presents a positive attitude when dealing with athletes, coaches and community members.

Hudson is a 1999 graduate of Fort Wayne Snider High School, where he competed in football, wrestling and track & field. He excelled in football under Hall of Fame coach Russ Isaacs, helping the team to two Summit Athletic Conference championships (1997 and 1998), two undefeated regular seasons (1997 and 1998), two sectional titles (1996 and 1997) and one regional crown (1997).

The Detroit native went on to Manchester University, playing football for the Spartans under coach Dave Harms and earning his bachelor’s degree in education in 2005. He later earned his master’s degree in administration leadership from Bethel University in 2012.

Hudson started his teaching and coaching career in 2006 at Prince Chapman Academy and Paul Harding High School in Fort Wayne. He coached football, wrestling and track while at those schools. In 2009, Hudson moved to South Bend, where he taught special education at Dickinson Fine Arts and Washington High School and for five years. He also coached both intermediate and high school football and wrestling during that time.

In 2014, Hudson accepted his current post at Washington High School. This assignment has allowed him the ability to coach the coaches he works with daily, creating a lasting impact on the lives of all the students at Washington.

Hudson likes to spend time with his wife, Heather, and four children – Braydon, 18, LeeAna, 15, Zayne, 8, and Trayce, 6. He often is found grilling in his backyard surrounded by friends and family.

District 2

Pat Mapes, superintendent, Perry Township Schools

With 32 years of experience in public education, Pat Mapes has provided leadership and advocacy at the local, state and national levels. He has raised student achievement by placing teacher leaders at the forefront of school improvement, and he continues to be a champion for student academic growth and teacher leadership.

Mapes graduated from Union High School in Modoc, Ind., in 1982. While at Union, he earned varsity letters in basketball, golf and baseball. He went on to attend Ball State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1988, a master’s degree in education in 1993 and a specialist in education degree in 2004. He has spent his career helping to guide students on the court and in the classroom as a teacher, coach and administrator.

While a teacher, Mapes also was an assistant boys’ basketball coach at Union (1984-86), Winchester (1986-87) and Daleville (1987-88). He followed by being the varsity boys’ basketball coach at Daleville (1988-90), Cowan (1990-93) and Knightstown (1993-94).

Mapes moved into administration at Knightstown, serving as an assistant principal there in 1993-94 and later at Delta Middle school from 1994-97. He was principal at Delta Middle School from 1997-2000 and at Delta High School from 2000-04. He became assistant superintendent for the Delaware Community School Corporation from 2004-06 and served as the corporation’s superintendent from 2006-09.

He worked as the Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Indiana from 2009 to 2012, during which time he developed the REPA Educator Standards and the LVIS Educator Licensing and Verification system, as well as state guidelines for school efficiency. Mapes followed by serving as chairman of the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board from 2012 to 2016. Since October 2016, he has been the superintendent of Perry Township Schools.

Mapes served as a member of the IHSAA Board of Directors from 2000 to 2006, and he assisted the IBCA and the Indiana All-Stars by making Southport High School available as a venue for the annual doubleheaders against Kentucky in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Mapes is the proud father of two adult daughters.

District 3

Tom Black, principal, East Central High School

Tom Black started his athletic and educational career at Jay County High School in 1994 while still attending Ball State as an undergraduate. He worked as a freshmen boys’ basketball coach under his father, Jim Black, the long-time high school and college basketball coach and former IBCA district representative.

Black followed by spending two years as the girls’ basketball and track coach at Muncie South (1996-98) before moving to northwest Indiana to be closer to family. He continued his teaching and coaching career at Kankakee Valley for the next seven years (1998-2005), working under Jack Gabor as JV boys’ basketball coach for a season before accepting the head boys’ basketball position in 1999. Black also coached boys’ golf and girls’ tennis during his time at KV.

He moved to Attica in 2005, where he coached boys’ basketball and track for just one year. He then accepted a position at South Decatur, where he spent seven years as an English teacher, assistant athletic director and coached boys’ basketball, boys’ track and JV baseball.

Before leaving the coaching ranks, Black was able to be a part of four sectional championship and three regional runner-up teams. He worked with and for some amazing coaches, including his father Jim Black, Jimmie Howell, Jack Gabor and Mike Broughton.

Black’s career in administration has spanned nine years at two schools. He served as dean of students, assistant principal and principal at Jennings County from 2013 to 2018. Since the fall of 2018, he has been the principal at East Central.

Although no longer in the coaching ranks, Black, in the first of a three-year term on the IHSAA Board of Directors, spends a great deal of time supporting his school’s sports teams and extra-curricular groups. People have said at every school where he has worked that Black’s attention and support of school spirit and culture is second to none. Whether it is the pushups he does after touchdowns in front of the student section at football games or leading the “WE ARE” cheers in the gymnasium or the natatorium, Black is – and always has been – about kids and school pride.

Black and his wife, Carlee, have been married for 11 years. The couple has two sons – Asher, 7, and Bergan, 5.

IBCA ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS

Administrator of the Year award winners as presented by the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association from 2008-present. Three, four or five winners per year with the IHSAA in a three-district format.

• 2008 – District 1: Michael Pettibone, superintendent, Adams Central Community Schools. District 2: Jerry Holifield, superintendent, Plainfield Community School Corp. District 3: Kendall Wildey, principal, Jennings County High School.
• 2009 – District 1: Garry Nallenweg, athletic director, Chesterton High School. District 2: Kevin Horrigan, athletic director, Greenfield-Central High School; Phil Waddell, athletic director, Hamilton Heights High School. District 3: Gary Cook, principal, North Decatur High School.
• 2010 – District 1: Larry "Jake" Jackowiak, assistant superintendent, Concord Community Schools. District 2: Mike Huey, athletic director, New Palestine High School. District 3: James Babcock, former athletic director, assistant principal and principal, Paoli High School.
• 2011 – District 1: Janis Qualizza, athletic director, Merrillville High School. District 2: Mike Necessary, superintendent, Randolph Southern School Corp.; Kevin Stephenson, athletic director, Beech Grove High School. District 3: Brad Lindsay, superintendent, Mooresville Consolidated School Corp.
• 2012 – District 1: Michael Smith, athletic director/assistant principal, Munster High School. District 2: Grant Nesbit, athletic director, Lawrence North High School; Jim Zeller, assistant athletic director, Lawrence North High School. District 3: Paul Neidig, athletic director, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp.; Jerrill Vandeventer, superintendent, Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools.
• 2013 – District 1: Don Gandy, principal, Wheeler High School. District 2: Wayne Barker, superintendent, Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District. District 3: Don Unruh, athletic director, New Albany High School.
• 2014 – District 1: Robert Falls, athletic director, Michigan City High School; Geoff Penrod, athletic director, Columbia City High School. District 2: Chad Bolser, athletic director, Richmond High School; Phil Ford, principal, Jay County High School. District 3: Mike Whitten, principal, Boonville High School.
• 2015 – District 1: Debb Stevens, athletic director, Caston Junior-Senior High School. District 2: Troy Inman, principal, Pike High School; Dave Worland, principal, Cathedral High School. District 3: Brett Bardwell, athletic director, Southridge High School; Jeff Hester, athletic director, Columbus North High School.
• 2016 – District 1: Ed Gilliland, athletic director, LaPorte High School. District 2: Mel Seifert, principal, Plainfield High School. District 3: Rob Moorhead, superintendent, South Ripley Community School Corp.
• 2017 – District 1: Patti McCormack, athletic director, Lowell High School. District 2: Chuck Weisenbach, principal, Roncalli High School. District 3: Ron McBride, athletic director, Bloomfield Junior-Senior High School.
• 2018 – District 1: Jane Allen, superintendent, Middlebury Community Schools. District 2: Steve Cox, director of transportation, Beech Grove City Schools. District 3: Steve Killian, athletic director, Wood Memorial High School.
• 2019 – District 1: Nathan Dean, athletic director, Jimtown High School. District 2: John Clark, athletic director, Ben Davis High School. District 3: Jeff Doyle, principal, Barr-Reeve High School.
• 2020 – District 1: Stacy Adams, athletic director, Valparaiso High School. District 2: Shane Osting, athletic director, New Castle High School. District 3: Tim Grove, superintendent, South Knox School Corp.
• 2021: no winners named (winners from 2020 honored in 2021 because of COVID-19 pandemic).
• 2022: District 1: Garland Hudson II, athletic director, South Bend Washington High School. District 2: Pat Mapes, superintendent, Perry Township Schools. District 3: Tom Black, principal, East Central High School.