Becker and Hartley may sound like a law firm. They are also the head coaches who will be keeping the radioactive bees this season.
Nick Becker comes to the club as head coach of the University of Jamestown Jimmies women's team to takeover from NDSU's Jim Robbins as men's coach at the fallout hive.
The club's announcement makes no acknowledgement of the head coach who had taken the radioactive bees to leading Detroit City away from home in the NPSL playoffs, and the reasons for his departure remain unclear. It has also been suggested that the change in leadership may signal a substantial change in the roster composition, although the tryouts will be the judge of that.
Coach Becker's assistants in Jamestown are Steve Harris, veteran of FC Fargo and Dakota Fusion between the posts and Jack Hartley, professional coach and former Jimmies team mate of Harris. More about Coach Hartley in a moment.
Becker's Jimmies amassed a 14-5-1 record last year, leading them to their best record in 12 years and a runners up spot in the Association of Independent Institutions. He also has ties to ODP programs. The club has the flesh on those bones well covers in their official release .
Somewhere I imagine Coach Tommy Nienhaus is having a chuckle at his counterpart in Jamestown taking over a club on the same ground he coached at in Moorhead. If Tommy ever chuckles.
Coach Jack Hartley has worked with high school sides including Fargo North and West Fargo Sheyenne, played under Coach Nienhaus in Jamestown and assistant coached for Becker. He becomes the 1st ever coach of competitive, amateur league women's soccer in Fargo-Moorhead and the inaugural WPSL gaffer for the Queen Bees.
He began his association with the club last year as a player, and played for 2 years prior with Storm FC in the metro Miami city of Pembroke Pines.
Before arriving in the area, Jack Hartley hails from Northampton, on the southern end of the East Midlands - virtually between where I went to school and where I lived for 10 years. Not as a footballer though. Yes, I'm mentioning it for that reason. This is still only a blog, lol.
Once again I am sorry to see Coach Robbins depart, but I'm intrigued what the lawfirm of Becker and Hartley will bring to the fallout hive.
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