Brewer High School

The 2023-2024 school year is year 12 within the Brewer School Department, and career year #20 overall in public education for NIAAA Certified Athletic Administrator, David Utterback, CAA. 

Mr. Utterback replaced Hall of Fame AD, Dennis Kiah in the summer of 2012 after Mr. Kiah retired from the position. Pictured below, Mr. Utterback was asked to present retired BHS AD, Dennis Kiah (right) into the Brewer Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2017. 

Mr. Utterback is a graduate of Husson University in Bangor with a Bachelors of Science in Physical Education (2003) and a Master of Science in Business with a concentration in Athletic Adminsitration (2005). 

Prior to coming to the Brewer School Department, Mr. Utterback was a Physical Education instructor at Old Town High School (2004-2012). Along with those duties, Mr. Utterback coached varsity baseball for the Old Town Coyotes and JV Boys basketball. 

In 2005, Mr. Utterback was named the PVC Coach of the Year in his first year at the helm of the Coyotes at the age of 24. In 2007, Mr. Utterback coached Maine's Mr. Baseball and Gatorade Player of the Year, Jarrett Lukas. In 2008, Mr. Utterback's Old Town team reached the Eastern Maine Class B championship before being ousted by eventual state champion, Gardiner High School. 

Prior to his stint at Old Town High School, Mr. Utterback was a volunteer baseball assistant coach at his alma mater, Bangor High School. In addition, Mr. Utterback coached the Bangor Senior Little League team to their first State Championship in 2001 at the age of 20, and then coached the first host team in the Bangor Senior Little League World Series in 2002. After a summer off in 2003, Mr. Utterback returned to the dugout to coach the Bangor team in the 2004 SLWS at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor. 

Over the course of many summers since the age of 16, Mr. Utterback has worked and volunteered at Mansfield Stadium. It is at Mansfield Stadium where he learned many of his field maintenence "tricks" while working with Ron St. Pierre. For this, he was tasked in 2022 with recognizing Mansfield Stadium's 30-year anniversary as part of a special event held on June 1 of that year when Brewer played Bangor in the regular season finale. Utterback will be a part of Mansfield Stadiums future moving forward as the Stadium transitions from its current lease agreement with the City of Bangor and longtime volunteers look to retire. 

Some of the initiatives that Mr. Utterback is most proud of in Brewer are the Unified Athletic program, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, the Athletic Hall of Fame, the addition of new scoreboards at Coffin and Heddericg Fields, the implementation of the www.gobrewerwitches.com website, and the rennovation of the locker room in the former tech building. In the summer of 2020, the new banners in the BHS gym were unveiled. An effort that was supported fully by the community and alumni as a fundraising effort. Little by little, we are improving infrastructure and experiences for all.

Expected to be completed in the summer of 2024 is a major capital rennovation project of the Heddericg Field space behind Brewer High School and new Brewer High School Athletic Complex. In the winter of 2020-2021, state of the art Musco lights were installed to set the perimeter of what will become one of the largest multi-use surface in New England. When completed, the Brewer High School Athletic Complex will have a 144,000 squre foot articifical turf playing surface that will have the ability to house all of our outdoor activites on campus for the first time in school history. In addition, a new, 5-court tennis space will be construction and an additional court space will allow for 4 pickle ball courts to be used year round which will replace the delaptiated courts located in the parking lot off of Parkway South. Spring 2024 will be the first season for athletic activities on this new facility, with full gameplay in the Fall of 2024.

In 2022, Brewer also took the lead for a cooperative girls ice hockey program for Penobscot County; the Penobscot Pioneers. In the spring of 2022, Mr Utterback, along with Coach Phil Turmelle, led a group of girls interested in the sport of Girls Lacrosse through play during a club schedule. This fostered interest and ultimatley a cooperative team with Hampden Academy. Mr Utterback also championed a middle school volleyball league, which took place for the first time in the month of February in 2023 and ran until the start of spring sports in April. In all, 7 programs have been added to the Brewer athletic department since Mr Utterback became athletic administrator. 

Mr. Utterback has become an active member of the athletic leagues and state associations in which Brewer High School is involved with. For the KVAC, Mr. Utterback is a past President of the league (2021-2022) was the chair of the Pine Tree Conference (PTC) Football league before stepping down in 2022. He represents Class "A" baseball & softball for the KVAC as well. In the PVC, Mr. Utterback is the chairperson of Swimming & Diving and on the Indoor Track and Outdoor Track & Field committees.

Since the implementation of Unified Basketball and Varsity Volleyball at Brewer High School, Mr. Utterback has taken on the task of organizing those sports for both the PVC and KVAC. Additionally, Mr. Utterback is the PVC's "Large School" representative to the Executive Committee.

Mr. Utterback is also a member of the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators (MIAAA) Executive Board, representing the "Central Region" of Maine. In the 2020-2021 school year, he was the Vice President of the MIAAA and in the 2021-2022 school year served as the organizations president, joining Dennis Kiah as the only two Brewer Athletic Administrators to serve as the President of that organization in its 51 year history. 

With the Maine Principals Association (MPA), Mr. Utterback served as a member of the Baseball Committee for 6 years, with two years served as "Chairperson" and was "chairperson" of the Classificiation Committee until 2022. Mr. Utterback was also appointed to the MPA's first ever E-Sports Committee with the MPA. Beginning in 2022, he began serving on the MPA's Media Relations Committee as a liasion and also will continue with the E-Sports and Unified Sports committees. Recently, Mr. Utterback has partnered with the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame to enhance that organizations involvement with Unified Basketball by creating a Unified Basketball Hall of Fame Classic event which showcases local teams at the historic "PIT" (Memorial Gym) on the campus of the University of Maine. 

During the 2018 MIAAA State Conference, Mr. Utterback was chosen by his peers as the recipient of the "Excellence in Middle Level Athletics" award, given to the States top Middle School level Athletic Administrator.

The 2021 school year saw many accolades bestowed upon Mr Utterback. He was chosen as the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) State Award of Merit recipient for the Maine. The Maine Administrators of Services for Children with Disabilities (MADSEC) organization named Mr Utterback as the Special Education Support Person of the Year for his work promoting and organzing Unified athletics in Brewer, the region and state. And the Class of 2021 honored him by dedicated the Trident Yearbook to him for his work advocating and providing the students with an athletic expereicne within a Covid school year.

In the spring of 2022, the Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (MIAAA) chose Mr. Utterback as the top Athletic Administrator in the State of Maine by awarding him with the "Robert Lahey Athletic Director of the Year" award named after the legendary former AD at Old Town High School and one of the founders of the MIAAA. At 41 years old in 2022, Mr Utterback is the youngest athletic administrator to be awarded this honor in the 51 year history of the MIAAA.

On June 16, 2018, when the Brewer Baseball team won their first state championship in school history, this marked the first state championship in high school athletics that Mr. Utterback was a part of. As a former baseball coach, it was very fitting that baseball be his first championship as an Athletic Administrator. To cap things off, the Softball team completed the sweep later in the afternoon and won the State Championship, making the day even more memorable. 

Mr. Utterback is looking forward to continuing to build on the energy created through the school district over the past few years with student body support, student involvement at all levels of athletics and community/alumni support.

Mr Utterback is shown here following Brewer softballs state championship victory over Greely holding the two MPA championship trophies proudly. Pictured are from left to right are the Class of 2018 players: Ben Byorak, Kobe Rogerson, Josiah Cyr, Mr. Utterback, MJ Sellars and Emily Lord (missing is Evan Andrews).