John E. (Jack) Roberts Email and Phone Number

Jack Roberts served the MHSAA as its Executive Director for 32 years, implementing programs and overseeing tournament administration and regulations for the Association which boasts 1,500 member schools, 11,000 registered officials and 13,000 head coaches.During the first decade of this lengthy tenure, the Michigan association took the lead nationwide in promoting sportsmanship as a core value of school sports. During the third decade, the MHSAA surged to the nation’s lead in advancing participant health and safety.During a total of 43 years in school-based sports administration Roberts spoke to educator and athletic groups, business leaders and civic groups in almost every state and five Canadian provinces. He is one of the nation's most articulate advocates for defining and defending educational athletics.Roberts has served on several national association boards and was the first chairman of the NFHS Network board of directors. He has been board president for the Lansing Michigan area Refugee Development Center for 11 years, and is a past-chair of the board of directors of the Michigan Society of Association Executives. He was selected to the board of trustees for the Capital Region Community Foundation in December of 2013 and served as its chairman in 2018. He serves on the foundation board for the Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau.He is a 1970 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played defensive safety for the Ivy League's winningest football team during that span, and he sang in Dartmouth's close harmony vocal group.His wife, Peggy, is retired from a 30-year career in social services, and has concluded six years as president of the board of directors for the Fenner Nature Conservancy in Lansing. Jack and Peggy are passionate world travelers and have two grown sons.