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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Mechanicsburg, PA) Mark E. Byers was recently named as the new Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. (PIAA). Executive Director with unanimous support from the PIAA’s Board of Directors. Byers will begin his new position on January 1st, 2026 and he will be the ninth Executive Director of the PIAA since 1913, the year it was founded. Byers has been a member of the PIAA Administrative Staff since 1999, was brought on that staff as an assistant executive director, and in 2012, was promoted to chief operating officer.