2024 will mark Nino’s second season with the Skyhawks as an assistant coach. 

In his first season with Fort Lewis, Nino assisted the Skyhawks in capturing the RMAC Regular Season Championship, the rights to host the RMAC Tournament, Super Region 4’s eighth seed in the NCAA Tournament, and the program’s first NCAA Tournament win since 2011 to reach the round of 32. In addition, FLC reached as high as No. 10 on the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 National Poll.

Nino also oversaw one of the most dominant offenses in the South-Central Region as the Skyhawks averaged the second-highest goals per game (2.429), second-most goals for (51), and the third-highest goal differential (1.10).

At the player level, Nino assisted in the development of true freshman Anton Hjalmarsson who was named the RMAC Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year after tallying 10 goals and eight assists over 17 matches. Hjalmarsson went on to record another goal and three assists in the NCAA Tournament to garner D2CCA First-Team All-South Central Region honors. In addition to Hjalmarsson, redshirt senior Loic Jean-Baptiste was tabbed with First-Team All-Region honors while junior Gabriel Legendre and sophomore Kaden Schufft each earned Second-Team All-Region awards. Additionally, Hjalmarsson, Jean-Baptiste, and Legendre all earned First-Team All-RMAC nods while Tomas Duenes and Schufft took home Second-Team All-Conference awards. Four Skyhawks were also named the RMAC All-Tournament Team: Emmett Layman, David Citron Jean-Baptiste, and Schufft.

Nino joined the Skyhawks after coaching for the New Mexico Rush Soccer Club. There Nino served as the Director of Coaching Boys Side, the head coach for the U13, U14, and U15 boys’ teams, and the Elite Clubs National League Director. In 2021, Nino was named the New Mexico Youth Soccer Associate Competitive Coach of the Year, United State Youth Soccer West Region Competitive Coach of the Year, and USYS National Coach of the Year.

Before joining the New Mexico Rush, Nino began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the Albuquerque High School men’s soccer team. Nino assisted the Bulldogs to a perfect 21-0 record and .705 goals against average en route to winning the 5A New Mexico State Championship.

Prior to coaching, Nino enjoyed a professional career with the Highlanders Football Club of Zimbabwe in 2019 after spending two seasons with the Albuquerque Sol, a Premier Development League program.

Current Fort Lewis College Head Coach David Oberholtzer and Nino are no strangers, however, as Oberholtzer coached Nino through his program’s Rookie of the Year season at NCAA Division I University of Dayton in 2014. At Dayton, Nino played all four seasons with the Flyers making 67 starts in 70 matches, amassing 5,988 minutes, and capping off his career by being named Dayton’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2017.

Nino graduated from Dayton in 2017 with a degree in Entrepreneurship and currently resides in Durango.