BRENTWOOD, CA – APRIL 16: Liberty Excessive soccer coach Matt Hoefs holds up the Brentwood Bowl trophy for the group after Liberty Excessive received their soccer sport 30-21 towards Heritage Excessive in Brentwood, Calif., on Friday, April 16, 2021. (Doug Duran/Bay Space Information Group)
Liberty soccer coach Matt Hoefs has resigned after simply two seasons on the Bay Valley Athletic League faculty. Hoefs turned in his resignation Friday after assembly with principal Efa Huckaby and athletic director Andrew Lonsdale.
“I may inform they have been having some ideas about shifting on,” Hoefs stated Monday. “I didn’t assume I'd be again. I felt like they wished to go in a special course.”
Lonsdale on Monday stated he couldn’t remark. The college was closed for Martin Luther King Day. The AD stated he could be keen to debate the teaching scenario on Tuesday.
Hoefs, who was the pinnacle coach at Dublin Excessive in 2017-18 earlier than becoming a member of Ryan Partridge’s workers in 2019, was 9-6 in his two years with the Lions, together with 5-5 final season.
The favored coach, who has youngsters aged 1- and 5-years outdated, stated spending extra time together with his youngsters was additionally an element.
“Spending time with my household outmoded it,” Hoefs stated of teaching. “I used to be solely attending to spend moments with them. Final week after we began the (winter) weight program, I felt prefer it was time. After I left the principal’s workplace, I felt disillusioned and relieved.”
Hoefs stated he was “hopefully planning for one more 12 months or two” at Liberty. The Lions have some good expertise returning. The schedule is all however finished, with just one non-league sport nonetheless unsure. However he felt now was the proper time.
“It’s been a troublesome 12 months and a half,” Hoefs stated.
The course Liberty takes in soccer might be attention-grabbing. Throughout Partridge’s tenure, the Lions have been 34-5, captured a state championship in 2018 and received not less than 10 video games in every of his three seasons. It turned a vacation spot faculty for a lot of of Contra Costa County’s greatest gamers.
However Partridge, who's now the huge receivers coach at Massachusetts, didn't have a pandemic to take care of.
Hoefs doesn’t know if he'll return to teaching highschool soccer. He stated he already has obtained a few calls, however he lives near Liberty and doesn’t need to commute.