SHS hires Brian Childs as its new boys basketball head coach

SANDPOINT – Brian Childs was named the new head coach of the Sandpoint High School boys’ basketball team on Saturday.

“Brian is a high-profile person who will be a great mentor to SHS athletes,” Sandpoint sports director Kris Knowles wrote in an email. “No one is more dedicated and passionate about the game of basketball and student athletes than Coach Childs. This, along with his extensive experience, will help build the Bulldog basketball program.

Childs has coached basketball in high school for 23 years, and 16 of those years were spent as the head coach. He was previously the head coach at Coeur d’Alene Charter and Eastbrook High in Marion, Indiana.

He spent six seasons in Eastbrook before moving to Vancouver, Washington, in 2018 to take on his final job as the head coach at Heritage High School.

Before becoming head coach, Childs was an assistant coach at Lake City High.

Childs is taking on a Sandpoint program that deals with its fair share of adversity in the 2020-21 season. Wade Engelson resigned as head coach in early January and Mike Roos took the job temporarily for the remainder of the season.

The team finished this winter on a 4:16 record and ended the year on a 10-game losing streak. The Bulldogs haven’t won a regular season game against an opponent of the 4A Inland Empire League in five years.