Jeff Thompson garners National Coach of the Year
A trip to Bismarck, North Dakota, may not be on everyone’s bucket list, but the National High School Athletic Coaches Association was having its annual convention there and Flathead wrestling coach Jeff Thompson was giving a presentation.
On Wednesday Thompson got a bonus: He was named NHSACA Coach of the Year at the closing banquet. He knew he’d been nominated by the Montana Coaches Association, but didn’t give it much thought beyond that.
“I even told my wife, ‘You don’t even need to go,’ ” he said. “I looked up some of these guys (nominated) and thought it was a one in a million chance.
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