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Date: 3/22/2022
AMHERST – According to their peers, the Amherst Regional Public Schools athletics program is in good hands.
Amherst Regional Public Schools Athletic Director (AD) Victoria Stewart was awarded the Massachusetts Secondary Schools Athletic Directors Association’s Theodore “Ted” Danko District A Award. The award is presented to “an athletic administrator with three to five years’ experience who has exemplified the highest standards of their profession and has made significant contributions to their school and community.”
Stewart, in her third year as AD in the school district, was a student in the district from first grade until when she graduated from the high school in 2012. She added that the award is decided through a vote by fellow athletic directors in the state. She was voted as a finalist for her district and ended up winning the honor.
“I just want to keep going. I like getting awards, but the job’s not done yet. There’s a lot of things I want to keep doing for the kids and the community and I want to keep that work going,” Stewart said.
Stewart previously was a women’s college basketball coach before becoming the athletic director with two years coaching Amherst College before a year with the Merrimack College program. She says her student athletes have always been her focus in both of the careers she has had so far.
“I think the biggest part of both my careers that I have been a part of so far in my life, is that I just care about the kids,” Stewart added.
Stewart says she tries to always put her coaches in the best positions with proper resources for sports and for student athletes in general. If she can help her staff in this way, her main goal is that it spreads to the student athletes. Stewart added she loves the high school level because of the opportunity it brings to work with students who are growing and maturing right before her eyes.
“You’re kind of not molding the kids, but you’re trying to help them develop in their teenage years into young adults and its really cool to see the impact that you can have on all these kids,” Stewart said.