Griffin hired as JCHS AD

Alex Griffin served in Jay School Corporation from 2022-23.

He will make a return in 2024, but in a different role than he’s ever worked before.

Jay County school board unanimously voted 6-0 to hire Giffin as the next Jay County High School athletic director during a special meeting Wednesday afternoon.

“I truly feel blessed,” Griffin said. “I’m glad that after leaving to have an opportunity to come back.

“I’m excited to get to know everybody. Stepping into a new role, with my family too, and becoming more immersed in the community, see what’s happening and become part of what makes Jay as great as it is.”

JCHS started looking for a new athletic director after being informed on March 19 that Steve Boozier, who currently fills the role, will retire at the end of the school year to go back to Tri-County North.

Chad Dodd led a committee that included board members Phil Ford and Marcie Vormohr as well as three coaches. All but one coach had Griffin as the number one option out of the five candidates interviewed, leading to the suggestion of the $102,000, two-year contract.

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“Alex is a high energy guy, a guy of character and integrity and you know he’s going to show up every day and work hard,” Dodd said. “I called up his principal at New Castle and asked him about Alex. He told me those similar things and he said ‘Even if I would have known that I was only going to have him for one year, I still would have hired him.’

“I think that speaks to the kind of guy you’re getting. I’m excited to have him back and see what he can do in athletics.”

Griffin served in the military and worked in ministry before following in his wife’s footsteps to get a job in education. He started out teaching social studies to fifth and sixth graders at South Madison Community School and later became the dean of students at Anderson Intermediate school.

He then transitioned to Jay County Junior High School to work in curriculum and assessment from January 2022 until the end of that school year. For the 2022-23 school year, he served as an associate principal at the junior high school.

He took a job as an associate principal at New Castle High School for the 2023-24 school year to be closer to his family before making the decision to return.