Long time Jefferson High School Coach Dick Norden has been voted into the Montana Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Montana Coaches Association convention August 3, 2017 in Great Falls, Montana.
Coach Norden started his coaching career at Beach, North Dakota in 1971. After spending two years there he went to Westby, Montana for three years, 1974-1976, where he coached Westby to a Class C boys state basketball title. From Westby he moved to Poplar for one year, then in 1977 Dick and wife Linda moved to Boulder where he taught and coached at Jefferson High School. They continue to live in Boulder.
Under Norden’s guidance, the 1983-1984 JHS boys basketball team won the state Class B title. Coach Norden’s impressive stats as a boys basketball head coach show two State titles and a 405-222 win-loss record.
In four years as a girls basketball head coach, the win-loss record was 65-48. The JHS girls team of 1990-1991 won first in the regular season, first at district, and first at divisional, and then tied for 5-6 at state. Along with basketball Norden has also coached football and track and field and was a little league baseball commissioner for 15 years. His coaching took him to the college level for two years when he was an assistant girls basketball coach at Carroll College.
In all he has coached high school and college youth for 42 years. He has also been an athletic director nine times in his career. Coach Nornen still volunteers as an assistant boys basketball coach at Jefferson High and is highly thought of by coaches throughout Montana and regionally.
Congratulations on a very well deserved induction into the Montana Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Jefferson High School thanks Coach Norden and is very fortunate to have his knowledge and experience working with the students for so many years.
