Peninsula football coach resigns

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The football coach -- with the most poetic surname in prep sports -- has stepped down. Tony Uruburu, who guided the Peninsula Panthers over the past eight years, will not return as coach next season. ‘I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while actually,’ Uruburu told the Daily Breeze. ‘Times change, situations change. It was in my best interest to move on.’

Uruburu is leaving but not without a big heaping of success. He led the Panthers to a 53-33-4 record, won Bay League crowns in 2004 and 2005 and guided the team to the Southern Section division semifinals in each of those seasons.

Uruburu will remain at Peninsula as a physical education and science teacher.

And, Coach Uruburu, We’ll miss seeing you on the field coach. Good luck.

-- Anthony Stitt