About Jim Serger

Jim Serger graduated from the University of Cincinnati and was a Delta Tau Delta Fraternity member. Having served four years in the U.S. Navy, Jim lived in Japan for four years and served onboard the USS Independence (CV-62). He has backpacked throughout Asia numerous times, climbed Mt. Fuji, and has completed two marathons (2017 and 2020). He worked at a little convenient store for six years in high school and college, and in the packaged ice industry for eighteen years after the Navy. Jim was an operations manager serving in the aviation industry for seven years. In 2012, he rode a bicycle from Carmel, Indiana to Orlando, Florida for charity. Jim was a contributing writer to the Current in Carmel newspaper from 2016-2021. He was awarded the Fire Chief Commendation Award in 2023, 2024, and 2025 by the New Richmond, Ohio Fire Department. Jim also received the Citizen of the Year Award in 2024, by The Village of New Richmond, Ohio. Jim has written nine other books: Go the Distance (2011