The NFHS is pleased to welcome Sandy Searcy as the new chair of the Swimming and Diving Rules Committee. Searcy will serve in this position for a four-year term.

Searcy joined the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) as an assistant commissioner in 1999, and is responsible for softball, boys and girls swimming and diving, and volleyball. Her other duties include administering the IHSAA Student Advisory Committee, plus the IHSAA Student Leadership Conference. At the national level, she has served on the NFHS National Student Leadership Planning Committee since 1999, the NFHS Gymnastics Rules Committee (2006-11), the NFHS Softball Rules Committee (2008-11), the NFHS Spirit of Sport Committee (2009-11), and is currently on the NFHS Volleyball Rules Committee. She also serves as the NFHS representative to the USA Swimming Rules and Regulation Commission.

Sandy Searcy will chair the NFHS Swimming and Diving Rules Committee.

Searcy was honored with a NFHS Citation in July 2014 for her contributions to the NFHS and Indiana high school sports programs. It is one of the most highly-regarded achievements in national high school sports.

Her 16-year coaching career began while she was a sophomore at Indiana University in 1983 when she served as the boys swimming coach of Bloomington (Indiana) South High School. A year later she led the girls swimming team at cross-town rival Bloomington (Indiana) North High School. That move began a 15-year tenure at North in which Searcy also served as boys swimming coach, girls athletics director and physical education teacher.

Searcy was an executive board member of the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association (ICGSA) from 1991-95, serving as president in 1997-98. She served three times as a member of the rules proposal committee of the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA) and the IHSAA. She also was involved with the IHSAA as a member of the Girls Advisory Committee.

Searcy competed in swimming while at Elkhart Central High School and also at Indiana University for one season before an injury ended her competitive career. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sport science from IU in 1986 and a master’s degree in sport administration and physical education in 1987.