Staff

Chad Schultz joined the WIAA staff as assistant director on July 15, 2024. 

His responsibilities include the administration and coordination of duties for the sports of 8-player football, gymnastics, boys and girls lacrosse, and boys and girls tennis. Schultz also oversees Officials Services such as licensing, Officials' Advisory Committee, and recruiting & retention efforts. Schultz is the also WIAA contact for coaches' education and conduct.

He possesses a wealth of experience in sports programming. Schultz comes to the WIAA from University of Wisconsin-Madison where he held three positions from 2013-24.

In his most recent role, he served as Associate Director of Facility Services since 2021where he was responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of all UW Recreation & Wellbeing facilities, and he Schultz served on the core planning team for the design, construction and opening of the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center in 2023.

From 2016-21, Schultz served as the Assistant Director of Instructional and Inclusive Programs, directing non-credit instructional programs and activities for students and other members of the UW community.

His first position at UW was Coordinator of Competitive Sports for the university’s Recreational Sports Department from 2013-16. where he managed the operation of the Intramural Sports and Sport Clubs program, which served the university community of 43,000 students. Among his roles as coordinator, he hired, trained, scheduled, evaluated staff and over 200 sport officials and scorekeepers, and he coordinated the operations of 45 sport club organizations, supervised seasonal practice and competitions for 17 programs and developed policies and procedures of the Sport Clubs and Intramural Sports Handbook. Schultz also served as advisor to the Badger Student Officials Association.

Schultz received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, General Management from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2011. He served as Student Coordinator of Officials and Evaluations intern in the office of Recreation Sports and Facilities from 2009-11. He served as graduate assistant in Intramural Sports and received a master’s degree in Education, Higher Education Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2013.