George Pfeifer (born 1955) is an American

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coach, whose last assignment was as an assistant coach at

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. He is a former head coach at three different college programs: Lewis–Clark State in

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, the

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, and Montana State - Billings. After serving as head coach for sixteen seasons at LCSC, his alma mater, Pfeifer left the NAIA college to become an assistant in the WAC at Idaho under Leonard Perry for the season. Perry was fired after the last game in March; Pfeifer was promoted later in the then compiled a two-season record of . He was fired in March

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with a year remaining on his three-year contract, succeeded by Don Verlin, an assistant at and a previous finalist for the job A few months later, Pfeifer was hired as the head coach at Montana State–Billings in the

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. After three seasons at the Division II school, his contract was not renewed in 2011 and he became an assistant coach in the Big Sky Conference under

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at Montana State in Bozeman.
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, Pfiefer started working in basketball operations under head coach Mark Few at Gonzaga University in Spokane. In 2014, Pfeifer became the head coach at

Lewis and Clark High School Lewis and Clark High School is a four-year public secondary school in Spokane, Washington, United States. Opened in 1912, it is located at 521 W. Fourth Ave. in the Cliff/Cannon neighborhood of downtown Spokane, bounded by I-90 to the north and ...

in Spokane. In his first season, he compiled a record followed by in and the Tigers placed sixth in the 4A state tournament. His two-year record at LC was , but in the late summer of 2016, Priefer resigned as the head coach to pursue a full-time teaching job in Spokane. Pfeifer received his

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in social science from Lewis-Clark State in 1979 and later earned a

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in educational administration from the

. His first job in 1979 was as a teacher and girls' basketball coach at

St. Maries High School St. Maries High School is a four-year public secondary school in St. Maries, Idaho, the only high school in the St. Maries Joint School District #41. Located in north central Idaho in Benewah County, the high school is just north of the city and ...

, his

College head coaching record

References

External links

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MSU Billings
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