Wednesday, March 10, 2004
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| Triche resigns from Sandy Creek
By MONROE ROARK The most successful high school basketball coach in Fayette County the past two seasons has resigned. Maurice Triche, in his only two seasons as the head boys coach at Sandy Creek, won the Region 4-AAAA title in 2003 and went to the state playoffs in 2003 and 2004. He compiled a 19-10 record in 2003 and was voted Coach of the Year in the region, and the Patriots followed that up with a 20-10 campaign this season, finishing second in the region in the regular season. He told The Citizen Tuesday morning that principal Roy Rabold had requested his resignation, and he complied “regretfully,” he said, adding that Rabold did not give a reason for his dismissal. Rabold said Tuesday afternoon that Triche resigned “freely” and that he did not request his resignation, but could not comment beyond that due to personnel guidelines. This was Triche’s first head coaching job after stints as an assistant in Fayette and Clayton counties. Triche claimed the move was totally unexpected. “It was out of the clear blue sky,” he said. As recently as last week, when contacted about reports of his resignation, he told The Citizen that he was still coaching and hoped to continue doing so at Sandy Creek for quite some time. The question was initially posed to him after The Citizen received two separate reports from people in the community that the coach had resigned. Triche said he knew of no complaints about his work either in the classroom, where he teaches health and physical education, or on the basketball court, where his team finished third in the region this year and lost in the first round of the state playoffs. His last two teams are the only two boys teams from Sandy Creek to reach state. He said that he has enjoyed what he called “two great years” at the school. “I just thank him [Rabold] for the opportunity to showcase my coaching ability for two years,” he said. Triche will likely be transferred to another school in the county, and he definitely wants to continue coaching. He will consider coaching opportunities outside the county, although he does not want to uproot his family, which has lived in the same Fayette community for nine years. He has a daughter about to graduate from Sandy Creek and another child at Burch Elementary School. Back to the Top of the Page
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