Longtime Nashua North boys basketball coach Steve Lane has stepped down after 14 seasons. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – For the first time in 14 years, Nashua High School North will be searching for a new boys basketball coach.

Longtime head coach Steve Lane, who began his Titan hoop career in 2011, has stepped down, Nashua Athletic Director Lisa Gingras said on Monday.

Lane, Gingras said, handed in his resignation a week ago. The job was just posted Monday afternoon.

“He’s just at the point where he wants more time in his life,” Gingras said.

Lane’s Titans struggled this past season to a 5-13 mark, missing the Division I tournament for the first time in several years, and that type of season was the exception rather than the rule for North. The Titans had reached the championship game in 2024, bowing to Pinkerton. The previous two years the Titans made the Final Four, losing to Goffstown in 2022 and Pinkerton in 2023. The previous year they lost to eventual champion and city rival Bishop Guertin during the open tournament that had a regional format due to COVID.

Lane has always been recognized as one of the state’s best coaches.

“It’s a huge loss for our whole athletic program,” said Gingras, who said she wasn’t totally surprised that Lane decided to step away. “And not just the basketball program, and not just for North, but overall.”