photography / Maegan Burr Grantsville High School head basketball coach Larry Sandberg discusses a call with an official during a game this season. Sandberg has resigned after coaching the Cowboys for four seasons.

by Mark Watson

SPORTS EDITOR

Grantsville High School head basketball coach Larry Sandberg resigned this month and the school will soon conduct a statewide search for his replacement.

Sandberg worked for four years as the basketball coach at GHS. This season his team finished with a 6-15 record and a 4-6 record in Region 11. The Cowboys qualified for the state playoffs.

Grantsville played the No.1-ranked 3A team Delta at Delta in the first round of the playoffs and came close to a staging a major upset before losing 63-56 in overtime.

Sandberg worked for several years at Wendover High School as head basketball and head baseball coach. He also coached baseball at Tooele High School.

The former basketball coach will continue to teach history at Grantsville High School. The Tooele Transcript-Bulletin contacted Sandberg late Monday afternoon and he was conducting personal business in Salt Lake City and not available to discuss his reasons for the resignation prior to press time.

"He said he felt it was time to move on and that he was at peace with his decision," said Grantsville prinicipal Travis McCluskey.

The principal said Sandberg wants to spend more time with his family.

McCluskey said he will advertise the vacancy soon when he learns from the Tooele County School District how many new teachers will be hired at Grantsville High School next year.

"We will be getting an increase in teachers and I wanted to advertise the teaching positions along with the coaching position," McCluskey said.

"We'll advertise statewide," he added.

The principal said he will form a three- or four-person committee to select a coach and that committee would include himself, the athletic director and one or two others. If there are differences of opinion, the principal would make the final call.

"We'll advertise and leave it open for two weeks and probably by the middle of April name a new coach," McCluskey said.

Sandberg was an outstanding athlete at Grantsville High School during his playing career. He led the 1974 GHS football team to the state finals as the quarterback, started at point guard in basketball, lettered in tennis and was a top baseball player.

mwatson@tooeletranscript.com