Leaving a legacy: UMHB head coach Pete Fredenburg announces retirement
BELTON — After 24 years, 17 conference titles and two national championships, the man who built Mary Hardin-Baylor football from scratch and turned it into the country’s premier NCAA Division III program is hanging up his whistle.
In a room filled with family, friends and former players inside Crusader Stadium on Friday, Pete Fredenburg announced that he is retiring as head coach of the Crusaders and stepping away from the sport he has loved since he started playing as a youngster.
“If I can make it through this without crying, we’re all going to be happy,” he began. “I’m announcing today that I am retiring as the head football coach. I had 24 glorious years.”
The announcement came exactly three weeks after UMHB won the national championship — its second in a span of three full seasons — with a rout of North Central in the Stagg Bowl in Canton, Ohio.
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(Temple Daily Telegram)