Hosts
Thomas Fredrickson, CMAA, AIC
Thomas aka Freddy is a very active AD at the local, state, and national levels.
At the state level, Thomas serves on the Board of the SCAAA as their Media and Marketing Director. He is also SCAAA's webmaster and runs the newly renewed website. He is also teaching multiple LTI classes throughout the year to SC athletic directors. He has just recently received the SCAAA award for AD of The Year.
At the national level, Thomas serves multiple areas of the NIAAA. He is on the all important Accreditation Committee, representing all of the states in Section 3. He has presented 2 workshops at the last 2 NADCs and has been a workshop Moderator. Thomas is also on the National Teaching Facility for LTCs 613 and 614. He was one of the 3 ADs that was invited to rewrite those courses and was recently named the National Course Chair for LTC 613. Thomas also just completed the NIAAA Leadership Cohort at this past year's NADC.
Thomas has also started and hosts The Middle School AD Podcast. This has been a great tool for professional development for middle school athletic directors across the nation. The podcast focuses on the different challenges of middle school athletics and shares best practices from other ADs.
Motto: Be Better Today!
Scott paine, MBA, cmaa, cic
Scott is an experienced business and public school administrator with a demonstrated history of working in an administrative, business development, teaching, and coaching role with K-12 schools, collegiate institutions and sport organizations. He is a Certified Master Athletic Administrator (CMAA) via the National Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA). He has previously worked as a district level AD in the state of WA. As an AD, he was known for his tech-savvy ways of digitally streamlining his athletic department processes, documents, and systems. This has led him to work with ADs worldwide on creating the same systems and documents for their needs. He currently serves as a part of the NIAAA Teaching Faculty for the tech productivity LTCs: 613 & 614. He is also in line to join either the NIAAA publications committee or sports facilities committee.
Having been in the "trench" as an Athletic Director, his passion has become helping ADs and administrators (K-12, Collegiate, & Sport Organizations) find tech-based solutions that help themselves and their departments become more efficient and tech-savvy. This efficiency helps save time, money and redundancy, thereby allowing administrators to focus on their students, coaches, and departmental growth/school & community culture. At his core he has a heart for the athletic administration profession and looks to serve the profession as a teacher.
Regardless of the guidance you seek, he exists to teach you how to leverage the resources around you for your own future use! He thrives in supporting and serving organizations, schools, staffs, clients, and communities in creating outcomes and cultures that WIN!
Motto: Win The Day!