Local Official To Receive IHSAA Award The Indiana High School Athletic Association has announced Akron’s Kirk Robinson will receive the 2012 IHSAA Girls Basketball Official of the Year Award at halftime of the 3A state championship game to be held at the Hulman Center on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute Saturday. Robinson has been officiating basketball for 27 years and has been assigned 22 sectionals, 16 regionals, nine semi states and three state championships in girls basketball. He has also worked one boys basketball and seven volleyball states championships. Robinson received the same award for volleyball in 2006. Robinson, a 1977 Tippecanoe Valley High School graduate, and his wife Kim have been married 32 years. They have two children Kyle and Kara, and expect their first grandchild in March. Robinson is the current secretary and past president and basketball chair for the Northern Indiana Officials Association.
