Longtime boys basketball coach Ken Niven says this will be his final season.
A fixture at Monarch in Louisville since the school opened in 1998-99, Niven also spent a year at Centaurus in Lafayette after 11 leading Alamosa’s Mean Moose.
While at Alamosa, he oversaw a Mean Moose run of four consecutive titles from 1989-92 over Classes AA and 4A. He also had four Division I signees.
Monarch’s Coyotes were 20-3 a year ago in the regular season, finishing runners-up in the Class 5A Front Range League, then went out in the first round to Lakewood. They opened the season on Tuesday with an 80-58 loss to Westminster and next will take on Pine Creek on Thursday in the Rock Canyon Tournament.
Niven is a 1974 graduate of Broomfield High School, where he was a three-sport athlete. He went on to junior college, then Adams State.
When the Coyotes host Fossil Ridge on Jan. 8 to open league play, the school will host a celebration of Niven’s career.
