Former Franklin County High School principal Dustin Riley is returning to the FC Community School Corporation, this time in a new role as the FCHS athletic director.

Riley was approved by the FCCSC Board of Trustees at their monthly meeting Monday evening. He takes the place of Denny Dorrel, who resigned in June after five years in the position.

Riley is a 2003 graduate of Lincoln High School in Cambridge City, where he earned nine varsity letters. While attending Purdue University for physical education, he assisted the Lincoln Golden Eagles' golf teams. After graduation, Riley located to Arizona to teach PE and health and became a coach in various sports programs over a six-year span. At Boulder Creek, he took the girls golf squad to the state championship twice. In the Stetson Hills community, he started the first middle school golf program.

In 2014, Riley joined the PE department at Laurel Elementary. That year he coached FC's middle school golf program while working toward his Master in Educational Leadership that he completed that spring. From teaching, he moved into the assistant principal position at FCHS after obtaining his Indiana license as school administrator; Riley began coaching the Wildcats' varsity boys golf team that he eventually led to the regional round of tournament action.

Riley became principal for two years, including the Covid-wracked year of 2020-21. He then briefly taught/administered at Cambridge City Lincoln HS.

The new AD will work with Dorrel to get up to speed ahead of the 2023-24 school year. Dorrel remains on staff as a PE teacher.