North Mason has new boys basketball coach

Derek Smith is the new North Mason boys basketball coach. He was hired May 18.

Smith, 28, has been the JV basketball coach and head football coach at Muckleshoot Tribal School in Auburn for the past three years and was the head baseball coach for one year.

While he attended Whitworth University, he was an assistant coach at a middle school for two years. He was a varsity and JV intern football assistant at Mead High School in Spokane County. He coached at Lakeside High School just outside of Spokane, coaching football and basketball.

Smith is originally from Chewelah, a city an hour north of S...