Niko is entering his fifth season with the York Community High School where he works with sprinters and horizontal jumpers. Over his four years with York he has broken lead the Lady Dukes to eight school records, 6 all-state athletes, 24 state qualifiers and 24 all-conference athletes. He also owns Ignite Fitness & Athletics, a sports performance facility for youth athletes.
Niko competed and coached at the highest colligate level in Track and Field for over 14 years. he started his coaching career at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Horizontal Jumps, coach where he had three NCAA championship series qualifiers.
He moved on to Roosevelt University as the sprints coach where he had multiple All-Conference athletes and has had the honor to work at the professional level as a strength and conditioning coach for multiple athletes in the horizontal jumps and sprints one of which is above mentioned Olympian Troy Doris.
Troy Doris, OLY (Horizontal Jumps)
Coach Doris is a world-class triple jumper, 2016 Olympic Games Finalist (7th place), 2018 Commonwealth Games Champion, and NCAA All-American whose career spans the highest levels of global competition, blending elite performance with a sharp technical mind for athlete development.