“…Schneider and Stier (2001) noted that it does not matter if one is an athletic director at a high school, a junior college, or a college/university -the elements of administering the sports program are essentially the same. The increased expectations and expanded roles for interscholastic athletic directors (Ha, Hums, & Greenwell, 2011;Hoch, 2008;Kalahar, 2011;Nagel, 2012;Schnieder & Stier, 2001;Sullivan, Lonsdale, & Taylor, 2014) as well as intercollegiate athletic directors (Robinson, Peterson, Tedrick, & Carpenter, 2003;Ryska, 2002;Weight & Zullo, 2015) have been documented in the literature. However, there is a paucity of research on independent school athletic directors in general, and specifically, there exists a gap in the literature on the impact of the increased expectations and expanded roles of athletic directors at independent schools.…”