Fisher steps down as Costa Mesa football coach

Glen Fisher has stepped down as Costa Mesa High’s football coach, said Jacob Haley, the school’s principal, via text on Monday.

Fisher led the Mustangs for three seasons, compiling a 9-21 overall record. He went 2-13 in the Orange Coast League, twice finishing in last place. Costa Mesa failed to make the CIF Southern Section playoffs under Fisher.

Haley, who hired Fisher in 2015, said Fisher is done coaching football. Fisher’s Mustangs finished 3-7 overall and dead last in league at 0-5 in his final year.

“Coach is stepping down after 28 years of coaching football,” Haley said in an email about Fisher, who before he arrived at Costa Mesa was in charge of Beckman in 2013-14, and he served as an assistant with the Patriots from 2007-11. “He felt it is time to have more time with family [and] grandchildren, as well as allow the opportunity for a new voice for Mustangs football.”

Gary Gonzalez, as assistant coach, will oversee the Costa Mesa program in the offseason as the school searches for a new head coach, Haley said. Haley added that the school plans to open the position in February and have interviews in March and April.

Fisher, who teaches social science at Costa Mesa, was the Mustangs’ first on-campus football coach since Tom Baldwin taught and coached at the school in 2004.

“[Fisher] will continue to teach at our school,” said Sharon Uhl, the school’s athletic director. “He told the boys his door is always open for them.”