THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: From teammates in North Dakota to friends and competitors in North Idaho, more than 40 years later
Courtesy photo Craig Christensen (9; standing second from left) and Kent Leiss (front row, left) pictured after playing in an amateur basketball tournament in the 1980s in North Dakota.
Courtesy photo The 1983-84 University of North Dakota-Williston men's basketball team. Seventh from left is Craig Christensen, now a longtime athletic director at Post Falls High. Third from right is Kent Leiss, now the boys basketball coach at Coeur d'Alene High.
For two years in the early 1980s, Post Falls High athletic director Craig Christensen and Coeur d’Alene High boys basketball coach Kent Leiss were college basketball teammates.
Both graduated in 1982 from high schools in North Dakota — Christensen from Williston, Leiss from Dickinson.
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