Education
Lewis & Clark College.
Lewis & Clark College.
He was the 1987 Most Valuable Player of the Southwest Indoor Soccer League. From 1982 to 1985, Nichols played collegiate soccer at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In 1986, Nichols signed with the Garland Genesis of the Southwest Indoor Soccer League.
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Nichols was named league Most Valuable Player. In 1987, Nichols moved to the Canton Invaders of the American Indoor Soccer Association. In 1990, he signed with the Dallas Sidekicks of the Major Indoor Soccer League where he spent one season.
Nichols remained in Dallas after being released by the Sidekicks and played for Dallas Mean Green in the Lone Star Soccer Alliance during the summer of 1991. He was second on the league’s points list.
In the fall of 1991, he returned to the SISL, this time with the Dallas Rockets.
In 2006, Nichols was inducted into the USL Hall of Fame.