Waverly Scoring New AD
Aelyn Thompson
Staff Writer
Waverly’s Athletic and Activities Department is no longer calling trick plays and shooting the moon. In its search for a leader, it now has a new quarterback: Waverly’s Brad McMillan.
McMillan is currently Assistant-Principal at Waverly Middle School and was the middle school Athletic and Activities Director before he accepted the draft to oversee it all as Athletic and Activities Director at the high school.
Accepting this new position took lots of consideration but one main reason pushed McMillan to sign onto the team.
“I love seeing kids grow as individuals through activities from middle school teens to young adults,” McMillan said. “That is the biggest reason I took the job, the reward I get from seeing that.”
The role of an AD is to show leadership through coordination of 7-12 athletic programs. The director helps promote students’ feeling of accomplishment and improvement of self-image through success in club activities and sport success.
Along with athletics that are mainly seen by the public, the activities director supervises programs such as speech, drama, academic competitions, music, and other school sanctioned programs.
“There are a lot of accomplishments between these clubs that no one knows about,” McMillan said. “For me, that will be one of the focuses. How can we promote what we do here?”
Lots of new opportunities and tasks need to be accomplished in the upcoming summer and 2014-2015 school year. New coaches need to be hired for basketball and volleyball and collaboration meetings need to be held with Waverly’s Athletic Booster Club.
“It’ll be great to be extremely active in the NSAA and keep Waverly on the forefront of things,” McMillan said. “As far as the activities department, it’ll be good to sit down and figure out what we [Waverly] want to be about.”
There are many items on this rookie’s plate, but Waverly’s spectators should keep their eyes peeled for this new member of the team to assist goals that call for a toll of the Vikings’ victory bell.
