COLUMBUS—Bill Axe, assistant principal and athletic administrator for Toledo Central Catholic High School, has begun a two-year term on the Ohio High School Athletic Association Board of Directors (OHSAA).

OHSAA is the governing body of high school sports in Ohio. It is a voluntary, nonprofit organization governing 826 high schools and 778 middle schools, encompassing more than 350,000 students.

Mr. Axe graduated summa cum laude from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 1973 and earned a master’s degree in education from Wright State University in 1979 and education specialist certification from the University of Toledo in 1999.

An educator for 38 years, Mr. Axe has spent 34 years as an athletic administrator, 19 years as a baseball, basketball and golf coach, and 22 years as an assistant principal. He has worked at Central Catholic since 1978, serving as the head boys basketball coach, an English teacher and yearbook moderator through 1992. He added athletic administrator duties in 1987 and was promoted to assistant principal in 1992 when he gave up his coaching, teaching and yearbook duties.

Mr. Axe has been a member of OHSAA’s Northwest District Athletic Board since 1999, is past president of the Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) and served on the OIAAA Executive Board for several years. This is his first term on the OHSAA board of directors, although he represented the OIAAA as an ex-officio member of the OHSAA board during the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years. During that time he also served as a member of a committee to study the OHSAA’s constitution and bylaws.

Mr. Axe and his wife Kim reside in Toledo and have two sons.