C.J. Colt has stepped down as head baseball coach at Bend’s Summit High School.

Colt, 34, submitted a letter of resignation to Summit athletic director Gabe Pagano last week, Pagano confirmed on Friday.

“I’ve been coaching baseball for 11 years, and I was Summit’s head coach for seven,” said Colt, the 2012 Intermountain Conference coach of the year. “I’m just ready for some new things in my life. I’ve got two kids and family. I’d like to see what else opens up for me, but I’m super happy about the opportunity I had there. It was amazing.”

Colt, who began with the Storm as a junior varsity coach in 2006, finishes his Summit varsity coaching career with a 102-84 overall record and a 49-46 mark in the IMC. He led the Storm to two conference championships and a state runner-up finish in 2012.

Colt said he decided to step away from baseball because of the “overwhelming” amount of time and work that went into being the head coach. He said he hopes to experience “what life’s like without that amazing amount of stress.”

Colt will remain at Summit as a P.E. and health teacher as well as a coach for the school’s JV2 boys soccer team.

“I told him, ‘Thank you for leaving the program the way you left it,’ ” said Pagano, who emphasized that Colt did not leave on negative terms. “He’s worked on a number of things like character and leadership. … He did so much more beyond the X’s and O’s of baseball.”

—Bulletin staff report