PENDLETON — After 100-plus wins, multiple Madison County and Hoosier Heritage Conference championships, Chad Cook has resigned his position as the head girls basketball coach at Pendleton Heights High School.

Cook’s letter of resignation for the coaching position was accepted at the April 7 South Madison Community School Corp. Board of School Trustees meeting.

Cook was the Arabians head coach for seven seasons, compiling a record of 102-67. This past season, the Arabians went 19-6 and won county and conference titles. They reached the championship game of the Mt. Vernon Sectional, but lost to the host school.

In 2017, Cook’s club went 19-5, winning both county and conference championships. The 2018 team was co-HHC champs, finishing 16-9.

Only his initial season, 2016, did the Arabians have a sub-.500 record, going 11-13.

He was named HHC Coach of the Year three times.

“As I look back at what I’ve been able to do here, I think of all the girls that have come through the program,” Cook said, listing off each player from his senior classes year by year. “All of them bought in to our culture and what we poured into them, about trying to be a better person that relates well to their teammates and to build one thing together, do something even bigger than basketball.

“We’ve had a chance to be successful through some of those years, but as I think back to those girls and how much they are part of this family that we made, I’m just so proud of what we were able to do.”

Prior to coming to Pendleton Heights, Cook was the head girls basketball coach at both Anderson and Anderson Highland high schools. He helped lead Anderson to sectional titles and 19-win seasons in both 2012 and 2014. The Indians won county championships in those seasons, too.

In 13 seasons, Cook’s teams have a combined record of 181-128.

The veteran coach, who teaches in the school system at Carnegie Learning Center, said he wasn’t sure what was next for him, but it was time to make a change.

“At this point, I don’t know where I might go forward,” Cook added. “My hope and my peace comes in God. I trust his steps here. I’m not sure what’s next but I trust him. He is my hope.

“I’m proud of what I’ve done and the girls that came through. I just don’t know where I’m going next. I don’t know if I’ll coach. I might do something else, but that’s where the trust and hope comes in.”

Cook said coaching is his passion, but if he does not return to that line of work he will take that passion into whatever is next.

For me, I was led at this point to look into something else,” Cook said of his decision to resign as coach. “It’s been a great run that I’ve had here and I’ve enjoyed the time that we’ve had. … What worked here is going to be something I am going to try to make work in some other part of my life. I am going to run my life the same way going forward whether I am coaching again or just teaching or what. Just led at this point, after praying and figuring out the right thing to do, to move on.”