Just a few short weeks after guiding the Summit boys basketball team to its first state title, Jon Frazier has stepped down as the Storm’s head coach after 13 years leading the program.

Frazier, who finished with a record of 215-102, cited wanting to spend more time with his family as the driving force behind the move. He and his wife have a 10-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter.

“I found that this was the first year that I felt that tug that I didn’t want to be absent from my kids,” Frazier said Tuesday night. “It just seemed like the natural time to transition and be more present and full-time with my kids and be able to experience this next phase of their lives.”

He said his decision to move on after nearly two decades of coaching high school basketball was made in January. Very few knew that when the team played its final home game in the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs that it would be his final game at Summit High.

Frazier said he plans to continue to be involved and be a resource for the next Summit coach, while also getting into coaching youth basketball.

“I want to make sure that I look back without any regrets that I missed out on time with my own kids,” Frazier said.

Frazier took over the Storm program in 2012 — a decade after the school opened. At that time, Summit had never had a season with a winning record. In his fourth season coaching, Frazier led the Storm to their first winning season, which started a three-year run of winning at least 20 games each season from 2015 to 2017. At the 5A state tournament, the Storm took third in 2016 and sixth in 2017.

Over the past three seasons, Summit took the leap from a good program to an elite one when it made three straight state title game appearances. In 2022, while competing in the 6A classification, the Storm won 27 games and reached the state championship game, then when the Storm returned to the 5A ranks in 2023, they reached the state title game once again.

Both times, Summit finished second, coming up just short of claiming the program’s first state title.

Frazier’s final act as Summit coach was perhaps his finest. With 1.3 seconds left in the state title game and the score knotted at 50 against Wilsonville, Frazier drew up an inbound play to get the ball to Pearson Carmichael, their star player, to take the final shot.

Instead, Frazier saw the Wilsonville defense overcommitting to guard Carmichael and called an audible to a play the Storm had never run or practiced before. He told in-bounder Collin Moore to throw the ball to the rim and gave Mac Bledsoe a signal to go up for an alley-oop.

Moore’s pass was perfect, as was Bledsoe’s finish, and the Storm had its first state title as Summit students, players and coaches celebrated on the court at Linfield University. It was a storybook ending.

But all the wins and league titles are secondary to what Frazier said he is most proud of during his time as Summit’s coach.

“That was never the goal of our program or the vision of our program,” Frazier said. “We built this program on building relationships. The thing I’m most proud of is the relationships that we formed. Hopefully that is what we accomplished, where we created a culture where kids loved being in the gym and loved improving, where they enjoyed the process of working hard. Success is the byproduct of working hard.”