Chris NelsonOn Wednesday, the Greene County School Board hired Chris Nelson as the new high school boys basketball coach.

Nelson grew up in Jefferson and graduated from Jefferson-Scranton in 2002. The last nine years, he’s been teaching and coaching boys basketball at Glidden-Ralston. He has also helped coach a variety of junior high sports at G-R as well. He’s excited to return to coach basketball in his hometown and describes transitioning from coaching Class 1A to Class 3A basketball.

“(You’re) Going to have to play better defense probably just because there’s more weapons on the floor. (A) Higher level of basketball, hopefully physically for us, we’ll do well there. I’m really excited because like I said, I got to play in that 15 years ago and I’m excited to get back and do it again and I think we’ve got some chances to do some really good things.”

While he’s coaching in Jefferson, Nelson will be working at Complete Insurance.

 

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