Colfax-Mingo’s Poulter named to IHSADA Hall of Fame

Bryan Poulter paid his membership dues. He attended the yearly convention. And he was present for all of the meetings that were required of him during his time as Colfax-Mingo Activities Director.

But he never thought he necessarily did enough to warrant a membership into a hall of fame.

Many of those around him disagreed as Poulter was recently selected to the Iowa High School Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame and will be recognized at the group’s annual banquet at the end of March.

“I was thrown off by the selection to be honest,” Poulter said. “I didn’t even really know there was a selection committee. I was nominated by someone though.”

Poulter said he still doesn’t actually know who he was nominated by. Someone on IHSADA Hall of Fame Committee certainly felt like his contributions were worthy of one of the highest honors for an AD.

Poulter’s first official year as Colfax-Mingo’s athletic director was the 1998-99 school year. He finished the 1997-98 year as an interim AD though.

The long-time Tigerhawk wrestling and softball coach helped Colfax-Mingo transition into the Heart of Iowa Athletic Conference as he took over just before the school joined the league in the late 1990s.

He exited the role the school year before the Tigerhawks moved into the South Iowa Cedar League in 2015-16.

“I first received a phone call from former BGM AD Gary Schroeder,” Poulter said. “He told me he wanted to be the first to tell me. The official email I got came from David Huff.”

Both Gary Schroeder of BGM and David Huff of Nodaway Valley were inducted into the IHSADA Hall of Fame in 2016.

Poulter spent several years working with South Hamilton AD Todd Coy, who was inducted in 2024.

“When I took over as AD we were just getting into the HOIAC,” Poulter said. “And it was Colfax-Mingo’s turn to have its AD be the conference chair, but I didn’t have any idea what I was doing yet. Todd was the current conference chair, and he agreed to do it one more year while I was figuring things out.”

Joining Poulter in the 2025 Hall of Fame class are Rollie Ackerman of Grundy Center and Marshalltown, Jeff Bevins of Creston, Jim Boehmer of Lake Mills and Alan Ling of English Valleys, another SICL school.

The annual IHSADA banquet begins at 5:30 p.m. on March 29 at the Hyatt Regency Coalville Hotel and Convention Center in Coralville.

Criteria to be inducted into the IHSADA Hall of Fame includes being a retired AD with at least 10 years of experience as an active AD and special consideration is given to those who serve the IHSADA. Poulter has been a district officer, according to Huff.

“Bryan was always an active member of the organization and met all of our criteria,” said Huff, who has served as the historian on the IHSADA board since 2014 and spent 26 total years as an AD at Nodaway Valley, Wilton and East Union.