CHENEY – High school officials have announced that Blackhawks boys varsity soccer head coach Rene Caro has resigned, and that they have elevated assistant coach Nick Hamer to the role.
According to a new release, Hamer is a 2010 graduate of Mead High School and 2014 graduate of Gonzaga University where he was a three-year All-West Coast Conference selection and the league’s most valuable player his senior season. Hamer played professionally for the former Kitsap Pumas of the Premier Development League and later the National Premier Soccer League where he played alongside Caro.
After the Pumas disbanded, Hamer coached in the Washington club system with Washington-East and eventually the Spokane Sounders. In 2018, he joined Caro’s first-year staff at Cheney High School.
Caro replaced Morgan Hartanov, who left in early 2018 after two seasons with the Blackhawks. In his one season at Cheney, Caro was 14-2 overall, won the regular-season Great Northern League title defeating Clarkston for the District 7 championship and No. 1 seed, losing to Grandview from the Central Washington Athletic Conference in the regional playoff round.
In the press release, CHS Athletics Director Jeff Chandler said Caro resigned in order to return to his hometown of Mount Vernon, Wash. to “focus on his efforts on qualifying for medical school.”
Hamer said he wants to “build on the foundation established by Rene (Caro)” in continuing the Blackhawk program’s standards off and on the field.
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