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Bronaugh's Crane off to Golden City
Nevada Daily Mail
Bronaugh R-7 athletic director, coach and P.E. teacher Sean Crane has taken a new position with Golden City.
Crane, who is finishing out the spring semester at Bronaugh, was recently hired by Golden City R-3 as the high school's P.E. teacher, varsity boys' basketball coach and girls' volleyball coach.
During his three-year run at Bronaugh, Crane coached varsity boys and girls' basketball, middle school boys and girls' basketball, and baseball.
Crane inherited a varsity girls' basket program that won only three games during the 2011-12 season. In Crane's first season at the helm, the Lady Wildcats won seven games, and followed that up with an 18-win campaign his second season.
The 2014-15 season turned out to be a memorable one for Crane and the Lady Cats, as they finished 19-7, capturing their first Golden Valley Vernon County Conference regular season championship since 2001. Bronaugh also won the GVVC post-season tournament. In addition, the Lady Wildcats played for the class 1 district 7 crown, losing to top-ranked Drexel.
Crane presented his athletic year-in-review during March's regular R-7 monthly board meeting.
"I love it here, I've had great kids," Crane said. "That's the one thing I'm going to miss more than anything, my kids."
Crane said the players he coached during the past three seasons have helped improve the athletic program overall.
"For example, the girls' basketball program," he said. "We played for a district championship for the first time since 1996."
Crane said roster sizes were robust under his watch.
"Our numbers were up. I had 14 girls (on the basketball roster)," he said. "I've always had big numbers in baseball. Our numbers have been up in everything but softball."
Crane said turning around the athletics program was no easy task.
"Had a lot of discipline issues the year before I got here," he said.
Crane said he feels he performed well given his workload and time commitment.
"You're asking a man to coach four sports, and to teach seven classes a day," he said. "I had a full plate."
Crane said that outgoing Bronaugh Principal James Frank and departing R-7 Superintendent Lyle Best have always been "incredibly supportive."
"They have helped mentor me," he said. "They've always been two people that I could lean on. I think they have done nothing but good things for the whole district, and made decisions that have helped the district as a whole."