The student support at games culminated during that season, but had been building for a few years through a renewed effort to establish a student section nicknamed “The Pit.”Ĭlayton credited support from staff members Courtney Burchett, Tracey Bush and Candy Handy-Ogle, along with assistant athletic director Susan Downey, who is retiring at the end of the school year, for making student involvement at games a high priority. 'She fights for us.': Kathy Stricker has pushed for equity in girls sports her whole life.īut perhaps most memorable was the Warriors’ double state championship in 2017-18 in boys and girls basketball in Class 4A, an achievement that had been accomplished only once previously. The wrestling program won its second state championship in 2016 and girls track won back-to-back in 2016 and ’17. The Warriors’ football program added three - Class 5A in 2009 and Class 6A in 20 - to bring its total to nine.

Warren Central won eight state championships during Clayton’s run as athletic director.

I came down here to the athletic department and immersed myself in the job and we really tried to take a different approach in running an athletic department to try to create an all-round experience where we are helping them to learn about the game of life.” “I thought I was probably on track to be a principal. “When I first took this job (as athletic director), I didn’t know how long I’d do it,” Clayton said.

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