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

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, 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

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, 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

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under Brad Huse at Montana State in Bozeman.
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, Pfiefer started working in basketball operations under head coach

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. In 2014, Pfeifer became the head coach at

Lewis and Clark High School Lewis and Clark High School is a four-year public Secondary education in the United States, secondary school in Spokane, Washington, United States. Opened in 1912, it is located at 521 W. Fourth Ave. in the Cliff/Cannon, Spokane, Cliff/Cannon ...

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, his

College head coaching record

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