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Jamie Heiner has been named the new athletic director at Valor Christian.
The move was announced to the school’s community on Friday in an email.
“We considered dozens of applicants and ultimately made the decision that Jamie Heiner was the best choice for our school,” Valor head of school Kurt Unruh said on Friday. “Jamie has done a fabulous job as our Director of Performance and we know he will be wonderful in this new role.”
Heiner has been the school’s Director of Performance since 2012, and has also headed the school’s Athletic Chaplaincy Program for two years. He will officially take over on June 1, and replace Rod Sherman.
Sherman, the only athletic director in the school’s highly-successful eight-year history, is set to move to a new role as Valor’s Director of Institutional advancement. That move was announced in January. Sherman will remain the school’s football coach.
“We are very grateful for Rod Sherman’s founding of Valor athletics,” Unruh said. “Thanks to Rod and his team, Jamie Heiner takes over a successful program. Our expectation is that Jamie will continue to improve and enhance Valor athletics for the benefit of our students and I believe he is the perfect individual to lead our program into the future.”
Heiner, meanwhile, oversaw the school’s strength and conditioning program, and owned a local sports performance training center prior to joining Valor in 2012.
Valor Christian has won 13 championships in its short history, including five football titles.