Column: Area ADs work among giants

When Libby High graduate Jerek Wolcott, the assistant athletic director at the University of Idaho, needed volunteers for the East Regional of the NCAA Tournament he knew just who to call.

Next year he won’t have to phone Nik Rewerts, Libby’s athletic director. Sharpie him in, right now.

“I had about the best seat in the gym, pretty much,” Rewerts said Wednesday, a couple weeks after sitting near half court at the East Regional’s first- and second-round games, which oddly enough were in Spokane. “I was a spotter on the stat crew.”