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Mullen announced the hiring of three new coaches on Friday. Alan Ball will be the school’s new volleyball coach, Devon Brady will take over ice hockey, and Frank Cawley will return as the girls basketball coach.
“Mullen High School is very excited to welcome Frank, Alan, and Devon to the Mullen family,” Mullen athletic director Vince Massey said in a statement. “We believe our program and our athletes will flourish and prosper under their leadership.”
Cawley was Mullen’s girls basketball coach over six seasons from 2005-11, and his teams were 113-44. The Mustangs won the 2006 Class 4A title under his guidance, and made three total Final 4 appearances.
Before heading Mullen’s girls team, he was the boys basketball assistant for five seasons.
Cawley takes over for Tyler Cline, who was 42-35 in three seasons. The Mustangs will return a large core of its team from last season, including seven of its eight leading scorers.
Ball, meanwhile, will take over the school’s volleyball program. He most recently has been the coach at KIPP Collegiate, a 3A team in Denver.
Ball’s teams were 17-26 in two seasons, but the Tigers made a remarkable turnaround in his second season. When he arrived in 2013. KIPP was riding a 21-match losing streak.
They were 2-18 that first season, but then went 15-8 last season in 2014.
Ball was an assistant at Mullen from 2007-12, and also has extensive experience in the club realm.
Brady will take over Mullen’s hockey program. He was an assistant for Denver East during the Angels’ highly-successful inaugural season in 2014-15.
Mullen went 4-14-0 a season ago.
Brady played college hockey at Hamline (Minn.), and then later the University of Arizona, a top-tier club program. He recently has been a coach for the under-10 program fro the Junior Pioneers.
As an assistant last season, he helped Denver East go 11-6-0 in its first season.