Brian Lewis, Assistant Commissioner

Brian Lewis

Sports: Boys Basketball, Boys Cross Country, Girls Cross Country, Unified Track & Field

Email: blewis@ihsaa.org 

Brian Lewis joined the Indiana High School Athletic Association in August 2021 as an assistant commissioner and administers the sports of boys and girls cross country, boys basketball, unified track and field, and oversees our contest officials.

Lewis spent the previous 15 years in secondary education, the last three as the athletic director at Jasper High School in southwest Indiana. There, he provided administrative direction and oversight to 21 athletic programs. Prior to that he worked five years as athletic director at Monrovia High School (2013-18) and served as head football coach and social studies teacher at Evansville Harrison (2009-13), Columbia City (2007-09) and North Vermillion (2006-07) high schools.

Lewis was an active member and served on several committees for both the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (IIAAA) and the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) from which he earned a certified master athletic administrators (CMAA) license. He was also named to a three-year term on the IHSAA Foundation Board of Directors.

During his career, Lewis was a participant, head coach or administrator for IHSAA-member schools in classes 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A from various areas of the state. He has served as a member of multiple IHSAA realignment and participation committees and hosted 75 state tournament events at the sectional, regional and semi-state rounds in various sports. He also assisted in organizing the IHSAA Boys Basketball State Finals for several years before joining the IHSAA.

Lewis played football collegiately for four years while graduating from Indiana State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Studies Education in 2006. He went on to earn a Master’s degree in Education and his Administrative License from Oakland City University in 2011. A Jasper native, he is an alumnus of Jasper High School and was a starting running back on the Wildcats’ 2001 IHSAA Class 4A football state championship team.

Lewis and his wife, Brooke, have two children, Isabelle and Drew. He is also the grandson of the late former IHSAA Commissioner C. Eugene Cato (1983-95).