St. Maries AD Gilkey earns national honor

St. Maries High School athletic director Todd Gilkey is one of 10 athletic administrators nationwide to receive the Bruce D. Whitehead Distinguished Service Award this year.

Gilkey was selected by the Board of Directors of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. He will be honored at the National Athletic Directors Conference as part of the banquet program on Dec. 17 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, located in National Harbor, Md.

Gilkey, entering his 20th year as an athletic director, has been named state AD of the year five times — 2004 (3A at St. Maries), 2009 and ’14 (5A at Coeur d’Alene High), and 2017 and ’19 (2A at St. Maries).

Gilkey worked at St. Maries High from 1992 to 2007, and was AD there from 2000 to ’07. Gilkey was AD at Coeur d’Alene High from 2007 to ’15, and has been back at St. Maries as AD since 2015.

Gilkey also received the National Federation of High Schools Citation Award in 2014.

Tracy Leinen, executive director of the Idaho Athletic Administration Association, selected Gilkey as the Idaho nominee for the award.