Dear BVSD Community,
It is with sadness that I am writing to inform you of long time BVSD athletic director, coach and teacher Monte Sutak’s death last night. He was a 30-year veteran of the district. Monte passed away in his sleep. No further details are available. I will forward more information regarding his family’s wishes and arrangements as I have them.
A graduate of Lafayette High School (now Pioneer Elementary School) and son of Lafayette High’s athletic director, later a special education teacher and coach at Broomfield High School, the athletic director at Centaurus High School and then the first athletic director at Monarch High School, Monte came to the Education Center in the early 2000’s as the district’s new athletic director before later retiring from BVSD. A positive and gregarious big man in stature and spirit, Monte inspired countless BVSD athletes, coaches, teachers, administrators and district staff with his student-centered, positive approach to school athletics.
BVSD Superintendent Chris King, who taught with Monte at Broomfield High in the 1980s and later worked closely with Monte when he was Boulder High School principal and later as the assistant superintendent for school leadership for high schools, remembers Monte very fondly as, “…a gentle giant, very gracious and humble.”
BVSD Deputy Superintendent Ellen Miller-Brown who knew Monte first during her tenure as Casey Middle School principal and later as a colleague at the Education Center, summed up his tenure as, “…a time of great jocularity…a golden era.”
The entire BVSD community, especially the many who had the privilege of knowing and working with him, sends its love and deepest sympathy to Monte’s entire family, especially his widow Vicki, formerly a school secretary at Angevine and Broomfield Heights middle schools, and his sister, Jenny Huebner, currently a special education teacher at Lafayette Elementary School.