Rob Johnson has stepped down as Chaparral boys basketball coach.
“It felt lie it was the right thing to do,” the 44-year-old said on Thursday. Johnson hopes to become an assistant principal and the climate long has shifted toward not having higher-end administrators double as coaches.
Head man leading the Class 5A Wolverines of Parker in the Continental League for eight seasons, Johnson and Chaparral won it all three years ago on a magnificent tip-in in overtime by the athletic Josh Adams, who recently was on ESPN’s Top 10 plays twice on the same night while competing for Wyoming.
“It’s bittersweet,” Johnson said. “We’ve got a great place here and a helluva community.”
Johnson, who also served as an assistant at Eaglecrest in Centennial, headed Summit in Frisco for three seasons and remembered that I interviewed him in 1998, when his Tigers fell to Dick Katte and Denver Christian, the night the legendary coach won his 599th game.
Chaparral was 18-8 the past season.
“It’s a tough one to let go of,” Johnson said.
