One of the stalwarts of coaching in San Antonio announced his retirement on Tuesday as Alamo Heights athletic director/head football coach Ron Rittimann steps away from coaching after a long career in the Alamo City.

Rittimann, who prior to becoming a head coach in 2008 when began the football program at San Antonio Johnson had been a long-time assistant at San Antonio Madison under another legend in San Antonio, Jim Streety.

In eighteen seasons as a head coach at Johnson and Alamo Heights posted a career record of 141-69, he led Johnson to a state semifinal appearance in 2013 and he led Alamo Heights to the regional finals in 2021 and 2025. He posted ten wins or more in his final five seasons as a head coach. He was named San Antonio coach of the year by the San Antonio Express-News in 2013.

Rittmann, who played his college football at Southwest Texas State (now Texas State) in nearby San Marcos began his coaching career as a student assistant and then a graduate assistant at his alma mater under head coach Dennis Franchione.

In 1991, Rittiman was hired by Streety, who he calls his mentor at San Antonio Madison, where he remained for seventeen seasons until he went to the newly built Johnson High School.

Rittimann’s departure from Alamo Heights leaves one of the area’s most attractive jobs open as there’s no doubt the job will get a lot of interest from across the state considering the good facilities, good location in the middle of San Antonio where they are one of the few one high school ISDs in Bexar County. 

“This has been a gradual thing, once the season ends you kind of go to a dark place because you are sad to lose a group of seniors. So that lingered a little longer and I thought about it more, I’m getting my first grand-child in a few weeks and I just feel like it’s time to focus on other things in my life. Coaching has been incredibly rewarding, I don’t regret the 37 years of coaching, but I’d like to take my wife on a fall trip and maybe help my sister in taking care of my Mom. So there’s a lot of things I’d like to do while I still have the energy and feel up to it," said Rittimann who said he'll stay on at Alamo Heights as long as is needed to assist with the transiiton.