THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: 'Basically like my second father' —Jerry Bittner has impacted numerous lives as girls basketball coach at North Idaho Christian. Prior to that is quite the story as well
MARK NELKE/Press Surrounded by "love notes," photos and an autographed basketball following his retirement at girls basketball coach at North Idaho Christian School in Hayden, Jerry Bittner holds a scrapbook in his Post Falls home.
JASON DUCHOW PHOTOGRAPHY Jerry Bittner shares a laugh during North Idaho Christian School's senior night this past season. At right is Royals senior Chelsey Cate, who has played for NICS since fourth grade.
Jerry Bittner’s numbers as a high school girls basketball coach are impressive.
More than 400 wins, 383 of them coming in the last 21 seasons, when he was coach at North Idaho Christian School in Hayden, before retiring as coach at the end of last season.
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