Newbury Park’s Hurley resigns after 19-year career
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Newbury Park football coach George Hurley has resigned after a 19-year run at the head of the program. The 59-year-old, however, will remain as the school’s athletic coordinator.
Hurley posted a 130-81-2 record while coaching the Panthers, leading the team to the 1993 Southern Section Division III title and six Marmonte League championships. This past season, the Panthers finished as co-league champs and advanced to the division semifinals.
Of course, his resignation doesn’t come as a shock. Hurley said after the Panthers’ semifinals loss that he was thinking about retiring from football coaching and he told me last month that retirement was a definite option.
Hurley said the school hopes to have a new football coach in place by mid-February and the coach likely will be a candidate from ‘somewhere in the Conejo Valley.’
Also, be sure to check out my audio interview with Hurley, who’s seen in the photo after Newbury Park’s Northern Division quarterfinal victory over Valencia:
