Tony Schenbeck is calling it a career after 40 years.
The longtime figure in Colorado high school baseball said Thursday he is stepping down as head coach at Mullen.
Schenbeck will remain as athletic director for the Mustangs.
“The (AD job) is 24/7,” Schenbeck said. “It takes up a lot of time.”
It was a particularly difficult season for the Mustangs, who usually are factors in the Class 5A Centennial League and postseason. The team forfeited three games for use of an ineligible player and dropped four of its final five games to finish 8-11 and out of the district playoffs. Two of the setbacks were by one run.
Add the usual Mullen parental pressure – coaches haven’t been lasting long at the school – and Schenbeck, who began in the 1960s at the now-defunct Mount Carmel in north Denver, decided it was time to turn over the baseball program to someone else.
He also began the program at Overland in 1978 and won the state’s big-school championship in 1990. He is retired from the Cherry Creek school district but the field at Utah Park, Overland’s home site, is named after him.
Mullen is accepting applications for a replacement.
