Will Prewitt

Background

About Will Prewitt

Will Prewitt accepted an offer to become the first commissioner of the Great American Conference on October 18, 2010, more than a month before the league had been officially named. Prior to taking the helm of the GAC, Prewitt served the previous 12 years as associate commissioner for the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), an NCAA Division II league based in Princeton, W.V. The Williamsburg, Kentucky native joined the WVIAC on July 1, after stints at Tusculum College and Appalachian State University. His duties at the WVIAC dealt primarily with championships, sport administration, scheduling, and media relations. The 1994 graduate of the University of Mississippi is a past member of the NCAA Division II Management Council, the NCAA Football Rules Committee, and the NCAA Division II Championships Committee. He recently completed a four-year term on the NCAA Division II Membership Committee and is the current president of the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners Association. He has been a part of more than 25 regional advisory committees for football, basketball, baseball, softball, and men's golf. In addition, Prewitt was also selected to be a part of the NCAA Division II Regionalization Advisory Board in the spring of 2007. He also chaired the Championship Committee's Rating Percentage Index study subgroup in spring 2010. Prewitt played a key role in bringing the 2006 NCAA D-II Men's Golf Championship to West Virginia and was the tournament's co-director. He has also been a part of the tournament staffs of over 30 national championships, including the Division II Softball, Division Football and Division Men's Basketball events. Prewitt served as sports information director at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn, from March 1998 until arriving at the WVIAC. He was the primary media contact for the Pioneers' 14 varsity sports as the school moved to the NCAA Division II level and the South Atlantic Conference. He previously worked with the baseball and basketball programs at NCAA Division I Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Prewitt was the sports information contact for the Mountaineer baseball program in 1996 and 1997. Prewitt currently lives with his wife, Stephanie, and daughter, Livvie, in Dardanelle, Ark, with their four dogs and two cats. He is a long-time high school football official, is a two-time president of the Dardanelle Rotary Club, and enjoys watching his daughter play softball and volleyball.