Hays High School will have a new assistant principal and athletic director as of July 1. Lance Krannawitter has accepted an offer to take that role. He currently is the Communications Director for USD 315 Colby and serves as the school’s athletics director. Prior to his current position, Krannawitter had been a principal or assistant principal from 2008 through 2016 in the Colby school district at the grade school, middle school and high school levels.

In June, Krannawitter will move to Hays with his wife and son, a freshman. His daughter is a senior who will graduate in May and head to college at the University of Kansas.

Interview with Lance Krannawitter

His move to the Hays school district gets Krannawitter closer to his parents in Russell and allows the opportunity to further an education career that has spent time in three different countries. As a United States Peace Corps volunteer, he spent two years in Tanzania, East Africa teaching English and agriculture to high school students. Krannawitter also spent a year in South Korea teaching English as a Second Language.

Krannawitter is a Hoxie high school graduate and earned two degrees from Fort Hays State University. He also completed two leadership programs at FHSU.