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Anderson named WIAA executive director

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Dave Anderson is about to step up from No. 2 to No. 1 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

Anderson, the deputy director since 2002, was named Wednesday night by the WIAA Board of Control as the association’s new executive director.

In becoming only the fifth executive director in the WIAA’s 112-year history, Anderson will succeed Doug Chickering, who will retire Aug. 1 after 24 years in the position.

Anderson was selected over associate director Debra Hauser, a Clinton native and WIAA staff member since 1992.

The two WIAA staff members were selected this month from a group of four as the two finalists for the top position. Mark Huenink, assistant superintendent in the Appleton School District, and Brillion superintendent Dominick Madison were the others in the final four.

Anderson, 55, joined the WIAA staff in 1998 as an assistant to the director. He was the Sun Prairie High School athletic director from 1991 until taking the WIAA position.

In his 11 years with the WIAA, Anderson has been in charge of student-athlete eligibility, game officials’ licensing, interpretation of rules, and tournament administration and planning. He also has been the committee leader in football, baseball, wrestling, hockey and softball, along with the medical advisory committee and wrestling’s seven-percent committee.

Anderson, a Kaukauna native and 1976 University of Wisconsin graduate, began his career as a faculty member at D.C. Everest High School in Schofield from 1976 to 1979. He was head track and field coach, assistant football coach and assistant basketball coach.

The late Dave McClain hired Anderson as a graduate assistant on the University of Wisconsin football staff in 1979. Anderson joined the UW-Eau Claire football staff in 1981, then served as defensive coordinator and part-time physical education teacher at Montana State in 1982 and 1983.

Anderson returned to the University of Wisconsin as an assistant football coach in 1983 and was the Badgers’ defensive coordinator in 1986. After a change of head coaches at Madison, he become the defensive coordinator at Miami of Ohio in 1987 and held that position until moving to Sun Prairie.

While becoming a three-sport standout at Kaukauna High School, Anderson earned all-state honors in football and was the named the state’s Player of the Year in 1972. He played football at the UW from 1972-76 and as a senior received the Ivan B. Williamson Award for academic and athletic excellence.

Anderson received a Master of Science degree in physical education, with an emphasis in athletic administration, from the UW in 1981.