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Fauquier’s Allen Creasy named VIAAA Athletic Administrator of the Year
It doesn’t come with a day off, but Allen Creasy will nonetheless accept the Virginia Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (VIAAA) award for 2011 Athletic Administrator of the Year in the Virginia High School League Group AA classification.
The award will be presented to Creasy, Fauquier High’s activities director since 1994, at an April 1 conference in Norfolk.
“I think it’s quite an honor,” Creasy said Monday. “There are 100-some schools in AA, so to be chosen out of all them, it’s pretty nice.”
Creasy has worked at Fauquier High since 1987. He began as the assistant activities director, a physical education teacher and a coach of various sports. Eight years later he became the activities director, and he’s currently serving his 17th year in that role at age 63.
“It’s just something you involve into,” Creasy said. “You coach for a while and look for a different challenge, and maybe a little more pay opportunity.”
Creasy said he often puts in 13 hours of work in a day during the school year, arriving at 7:30 a.m. and leaving after athletic events have ended around 9 p.m.
“I’ve always loved being around kids and being around sports,” he said. “I’ve probably got one of the best jobs a person could have…. I don’t like the long hours, but it comes with the turf.”
Kettle Run athletic director Paul Frye nominated Creasy for the VIAAA award, and then some Fauquier High staff members wrote letters of recommendation for Creasy.
“Just saying how loyal and dedicated he is to his school,” said Frye, who had Creasy as a coach during his junior and high school years. “For all his years of service he’s provided not just Fauquier County, but the whole VHSL and region.”
VIAAA past presidents reviewed all the nomination packages and selected Creasy for the AA award along with athletic directors from the AAA, A and independent schools classifications.
“Allen’s a great guy,” David Rhodes, the VIAAA Immediate Past President, said. “He’s a worthy representative. We’re happy for him.”
Former Liberty activities director Jerry Carter was among the past presidents on the selection committee. Carter won the 2010 VIAAA Athletic Administrator of the Year award as Briar Woods’ athletic director.
“There’s a lot of different areas that are considered,” Rhodes, said. “What the individual has done at the school and on the state level…over the years.”
Fauquier High principal Roger Sites wrote one of the letters of recommendation for Creasy.
“He spends a lot of time here and he’s always available,” Sites said. “He may be the model for all athletic directors in the state – his breadth of knowledge, attention to detail, his positive relationship with players and coaches.”
Among Creasy’s recent accomplishments are the improvements to Falcon Field. That included leveling the field playing surface, replacing the drainage system and upgrading to Sovereign Bermuda grass.
“And he has not asked the county for money,” Sites said. “He’s been very close to the booster program and has secured thousands and thousands of donations.”
Creasy has more medial daily tasks, too. Monday morning, for example, he helped organize Fauquier’s winter sports awards night, compiled a weekly activities schedule to send out via mass e-mail, explained work orders to maintenance workers for upkeep of the baseball field and locker rooms, and worked out the logistics of canceling transportation and officiating for postponed soccer scrimmages.
Plus, he fielded phones calls from the media, vendors, parents and others.
“I’d hate to pay his cell phone bill,” Sites said.
Creasy also has general school responsibilities, like bus duty, and he writes contracts for outside events held at Fauquier.
After school, he makes the rounds to various sports practices and games.
“It’s a time-consuming job,” Creasy said. “And I have a wife that puts up with all this.”
Creasy began his career in 1971 as a teacher at H.M. Pearson. A few years later he became the athletic director and a physical education teacher at Cedar Lee Junior High, where he stayed 12 years before moving to Fauquier High.
The award will be presented to Creasy, Fauquier High’s activities director since 1994, at an April 1 conference in Norfolk.
“I think it’s quite an honor,” Creasy said Monday. “There are 100-some schools in AA, so to be chosen out of all them, it’s pretty nice.”
Creasy has worked at Fauquier High since 1987. He began as the assistant activities director, a physical education teacher and a coach of various sports. Eight years later he became the activities director, and he’s currently serving his 17th year in that role at age 63.
“It’s just something you involve into,” Creasy said. “You coach for a while and look for a different challenge, and maybe a little more pay opportunity.”
Creasy said he often puts in 13 hours of work in a day during the school year, arriving at 7:30 a.m. and leaving after athletic events have ended around 9 p.m.
“I’ve always loved being around kids and being around sports,” he said. “I’ve probably got one of the best jobs a person could have…. I don’t like the long hours, but it comes with the turf.”
Kettle Run athletic director Paul Frye nominated Creasy for the VIAAA award, and then some Fauquier High staff members wrote letters of recommendation for Creasy.
“Just saying how loyal and dedicated he is to his school,” said Frye, who had Creasy as a coach during his junior and high school years. “For all his years of service he’s provided not just Fauquier County, but the whole VHSL and region.”
VIAAA past presidents reviewed all the nomination packages and selected Creasy for the AA award along with athletic directors from the AAA, A and independent schools classifications.
“Allen’s a great guy,” David Rhodes, the VIAAA Immediate Past President, said. “He’s a worthy representative. We’re happy for him.”
Former Liberty activities director Jerry Carter was among the past presidents on the selection committee. Carter won the 2010 VIAAA Athletic Administrator of the Year award as Briar Woods’ athletic director.
“There’s a lot of different areas that are considered,” Rhodes, said. “What the individual has done at the school and on the state level…over the years.”
Fauquier High principal Roger Sites wrote one of the letters of recommendation for Creasy.
“He spends a lot of time here and he’s always available,” Sites said. “He may be the model for all athletic directors in the state – his breadth of knowledge, attention to detail, his positive relationship with players and coaches.”
Among Creasy’s recent accomplishments are the improvements to Falcon Field. That included leveling the field playing surface, replacing the drainage system and upgrading to Sovereign Bermuda grass.
“And he has not asked the county for money,” Sites said. “He’s been very close to the booster program and has secured thousands and thousands of donations.”
Creasy has more medial daily tasks, too. Monday morning, for example, he helped organize Fauquier’s winter sports awards night, compiled a weekly activities schedule to send out via mass e-mail, explained work orders to maintenance workers for upkeep of the baseball field and locker rooms, and worked out the logistics of canceling transportation and officiating for postponed soccer scrimmages.
Plus, he fielded phones calls from the media, vendors, parents and others.
“I’d hate to pay his cell phone bill,” Sites said.
Creasy also has general school responsibilities, like bus duty, and he writes contracts for outside events held at Fauquier.
After school, he makes the rounds to various sports practices and games.
“It’s a time-consuming job,” Creasy said. “And I have a wife that puts up with all this.”
Creasy began his career in 1971 as a teacher at H.M. Pearson. A few years later he became the athletic director and a physical education teacher at Cedar Lee Junior High, where he stayed 12 years before moving to Fauquier High.
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