The CHIEF May 2023

Coach Brunner Retires By: Addisyn McKinney

For many years, our soon to be retiring Athletic Director, Mr. Brunner, has served us in multiple ways as being at PTHS. From being the school’s golf coach to being the best PTHS role model for school spirit, he has never let us down when it came to the well-being of our school. Now that he is retiring, he shared some of his best and favorite memories that he will be taking from our school. Coach Brunner says that his greatest memory would be working at the same building as his wife and seeing his two sons go through high school before him. His greatest achievement while being at PTHS is doing what was best for the school and putting his best foot forward. Every effort was to show his school pride and bleed the colors of orange and blue. One thing he says he is going to miss at PTHS is talking to the people he sees every day, whether it be the other teachers or the rest of the staff. Outside of being the Athletic Director, Mr. Brunner also took lead in being our school’s golf coach. He says his best memory of being the golf coach is when the girl’s golf team won their first regional game and when they won a conference title. Mr. Brunner says that his greatest honor at PTHS was being named Athletic Director in the first place, in the addition to the past athletes who have kept in touch with him about life in sports and life in general. The last thing Mr. Brunner says is that after his retirement he plans on spending this time working partially at the Wolf Creek Golf course and staying involved in athletics.