Harmon bio
Heath Harmon became the sixth executive director of the Alabama High School Athletic Association in July 2024.
Harmon graduated from Munford High School in Talladega County, and he holds a B.S. in Secondary Education, English and history from Jacksonville State University, and a M.A. in Secondary Education, English and Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama, as well as an Educational Specialist degree from the University of Alabama. He is also a graduate of the 2023 Alabama Superintendents Leadership Academy.
He arrived at the AHSAA after a successful stint as principal at Oxford High School, and his career also included stints as a high school English and History teacher, assistant principal and coach of multiple sports. During a 12-year stretch, he served as the head football coach at Cordova, Munford, Andalusia and White Plains high schools.
Harmon and his wife have two children, daughter Halaya, and son Hudson. Both graduated from Oxford High School. Their daughter graduated from Auburn University in 2023, and their son is currently a student at AU.
Dr. Kevin Lane
Kevin Lane completed his PhD in archaeology at the University of Cambridge (2006). He was subsequently a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Manchester (2007-2009), a Sainsbury Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia (2010), and a Research Fellow at the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Free University, Berlin, 2011-2012), before co-directing a Leverhulme mega-research project (University of Cambridge, 2012-2015). He recently led a project on pre-Hispanic Andean mobility funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2018-2021). He is currently the director of the Gerda Henkel-funded High Mountain Andean Dam Rehabilitation (HAARD) project, dedicated to restoring pre-Hispanic dams for modern use. His research focuses on the Northwest and Central Andes. Dr. Lane was Director of Heritage for the Government of Gibraltar (2014-2016), prior to his current position as a Research Fellow at CONICET – UBA, Argentina. He specializes in historical archaeology and heritage management, with interests in landscape archaeology, political ecology, ancient hydraulic technology, communities, identity, and borders, particularly the impact of contact and colonization.