Technical Director
Nicolas Hallett
Coach Nic played collegiately (University of Minnesota) and semi-professionally (Minneapolis City SC, Vlora City FC) here in Minnesota. Often the captain of his teams, Nic has been functionally coaching since he was 16 years old and brings 10 years of formal coaching experience. Nic holds multiple licenses from the United States Soccer Federation, in addition to other various coaching diplomas. Throughout his time coaching, Nic has already trained more than 800 players, ranging from ages 7-18 years old.
Coach Nic founded Level Up Coaching after having tremendous success in club coaching and training players in private 1-on-1 sessions.
Recently, Coach Nic’s U12 boys club team won back-to-back Minnesota state titles. The boys, which were coached by Nic since 2017, were trained using the Level Up philosophy of individual technical training first and foremost.
Senior Coach
Jörgen Munson
Coach Jörgen comes to Level Up after coaching collegiately at Dakota Wesleyan University for 3 years. Coach Jörgen joined the coaching staff of his alma mater after a successful 4-year playing career. While on the Tigers staff, Jörgen was tasked with running numerous technical skill sessions for the team to ensure they were prepared for competition. Coach Jörgen has also coached club soccer in Minnesota with Gitchi Gummi in Duluth.
Level Up is excited to add Coach Jörgen to the staff for many reasons, but given that fact that he is fresh off training collegiate players, we can only imagine the insights he has to provide to all of our younger, developing players.
Senior Coach
Jake Makela
Joining the Level Up staff in 2021, Coach Jake excelled at St. Thomas University here in Minnesota as a lightning-quick striker.
Coach Jake had a glittering career at Mankato West High School. In 2016, he won the Minnesota Mr. Soccer award, given to the state's most outstanding high school soccer player. He also currently holds the record for most career goals (134) scored in a high school career in the state of Minnesota!
Coach Jake will be running group sessions with the rest of the senior staff and is also available for private training sessions.
Advisement Director
Jason Buechler
Coach Jason was a four-year starter and captain at Bethany Lutheran College. Jason, who holds the United States Soccer Federation’s D License, has vast coaching experience, including directing Park Valley United’s youth academy, which develops more than 100 players each year.
Jason joined the college coaching ranks as an assistant coach with the University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) in 2018, where they went on to win the WHAC Conference and reached the NAIA National Tournament. Coach Jason is now an assistant coach with Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Coach Jason is extremely well-versed on the steps needed for a player to play collegiately. If you’d like to schedule a coaching call with him just email Admin@LevelUpCoaching.org.
Senior Coach
Jared Graham
Coach Jared was a standout high school player at Garner-Hayfield-Ventura in Garner, Iowa. Jared parlayed his successful youth career into playing overseas in Leeds, England at the Richmond International Soccer Academy.
Before recently moving to Minnesota, Coach Jared coached his alma mater to a historic season where they broke multiple school records including most wins in season, best winning percentage, least amount of goals conceded and furthest playoff advancement position.
Senior Coach
Jared Ewings
Coach Jared comes to us from Wisconsin where he holds Chippewa Falls High School’s record for career goals (79) and goals in a season (36). This glittering career led him to sign for Aris FC at 15 years old, the youngest signing in the semi-pro team’s history.
After high school, Coach Jared went on to play for Viterbo University in La Crosse. Coach Jared broke into the starting lineup as a freshman and stayed there his entire career with the V-Hawks, leading the team in assists 3 years straight.
During and after his playing career, Coach Jared was a lead coach for his college’s local soccer camps. He also has experience coaching club soccer with the Chippewa Strikers.
Coach Jared will be running group sessions with the rest of the senior staff and is also available for private training sessions.
Senior Coach
Daniel Hoffman
Bio coming soon…