National Institute for Fitness and Sport president to retire
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Jerry Taylor, president of the Indianapolis-based National Institute for Fitness and Sport, will retire in early February, the institute announced this week.
In the interim, longtime employee Emily Davenport will serve as president. Davenport has been with the institute since 2007, most recently serving as director of fitness management.
The NIFS Board of Trustees thanked Taylor for his leadership and credited him for positioning the organization as a fixture in the health research and fitness community.
“As we move from 2023 and transition to 2024, it seems appropriate that NIFS looks back on the leadership of Jerry Taylor who really built NIFS and developed it into the leader in health research and fitness delivery here in Indianapolis and throughout the Country and on behalf of the entire board of trustees,” said Michael O’Connor, Vice President of the NIFS Board of Trustees, in a new release.
Taylor’s retirement is effective Feb. 2.
NIFS is a not-for-profit that operates a 117,000-square-foot fitness facility on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis. Its fitness management department also does business in 13 states related to corporate fitness and senior living fitness centers.