Stephanie Evans set to begin first year on OHSAA Board of Directors

COLUMBUS — Stephanie Evans, director of athletics and student services at Stewart Federal Hocking High School, will begin her first year of a three-year term on the Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors when the board gathers in Columbus for its first meeting of the 2024-25 school year Thursday, Aug. 29. Evans will serve as the Female Representative from the Southeast District.

The OHSAA is the governing body of high school and junior high sports in Ohio. It is a voluntary, non-profit organization that governs 817 high schools and 747 middle schools, which includes approximately 400,000 student-athletes.

Evans is a 1999 graduate of Eastern High School in Reedsville, Ohio, where she was valedictorian while participating in volleyball, basketball and softball. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education (integrated language arts) in the fall of 2003 from Ohio University and later obtained her master’s degree in education administration from Ohio University, completing licensure programs for both principal and superintendent.

Evans spent 12 years in a variety of roles at Belpre City Schools. She taught middle school language arts for five years before becoming the assistant principal for the next seven years. Evans coached Belpre’s varsity volleyball team for four years and varsity softball team for 12 years (two as assistant, 10 as head coach) and spent her last eight years at the district as Belpre’s athletic administrator. Evans then took a position in the Federal Hocking Local School District, where she resides and is in her second year as the district’s director of athletics and student services.

Evans has served on the Southeast District Athletic Board (SEDAB) since 2014. She began as the interim Class A Representative position for one year and was then elected as the female representative the following year and has remained since. She served as the SEDAB president for the 2019-2020 school year and is the sport liaison for softball.