Chamberlain baseball coach Dick Rohrberg has decided to step down from his post after 12 seasons with the Chiefs to accept the same position at Sunlake High in Pasco County.

Rohrberg informed his team that he wouldn’t be returning as coach next season after he was offered and accepted the Sunlake job on Monday.

“Obviously it was very hard to leave. It was tough cleaning out my office. It was like leaving family,” Rohrberg said late Wednesday evening.

Rohrberg arrived at Chamberlain in 1996 after a one-year stint at Robinson and amassed more than 160 victories in his 12-year stint with the Chiefs. He led the Chiefs to the playoffs five times, including his first (1997) and final (2008) season. Chamberlain lost in the first round of the 2008 state playoffs eventual Class 5A state champion Dunedin.

Rohrberg also led the Chamberlain program to its only appearance in the state tournament, that coming at Legends Field in 2002, when the Chiefs made a remarkable postseason run after entering the state playoffs with a losing record.

“That team was much like this year’s team,” Rohrberg said. “The young kids just kept getting better and better as the season went on.”

Rohrberg said he’d been looking to re-locate his family to Pasco County for quite some time, and now will get the chance. He added his wife, also a teacher, expects to land a job somewhere in the county as well. Rohrberg added he would teach physical education at Sunlake.

Sunlake was a first-year school in 2008. Coach Billy Garcia led the Seahawks to a 9-16 record in 2008 but resigned shortly after the season.