An experienced mentor among the professional ranks prior to joining the UCF men’s soccer team, Nick Jaramillo enters his second season as the Knights’ primary goalkeepers’ coach in 2026.
Throughout his first season with the Black and Gold in 2025, Jaramillo oversaw a trio of rostered netminders and played a key role in the development of senior netminder Juanvi Muñoz throughout the starter’s final year of collegiate eligibility before he signed within the professional ranks in his native Spain.
Muñoz, in his fourth season in Orlando, appeared in a single-season career high 21 matches, totaling just over 1,903 minutes on the pitch. He produced a 1.277 goals-against average and a .690 save percentage accompanied by single-season career best marks in total saves (60), shutouts (5) and total wins (11).
His 1903:06 minutes played paced the Sun Belt and ranked fifth-most in the nation, and he also ranked among Sun Belt Conference leaders in total saves (3rd), goals-against average (6th), save percentage (7th), and saves per game (7th) as he led the Knights to their first Sun Belt Tournament Championship since joining the league prior to 2023.
Muñoz on five occasions made at least five saves in a game, highlighted by a standout seven-save performance in the Sun Belt Tournament title match on the road against third-seeded No. 12 Marshall Nov. 16, helping his team not only clinch the championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but also the program’s single-season record third ranked win of the year.
Prior to joining Scott Calabrese’s staff, Jaramillo most recently served two years with One Knoxville SC as an assistant coach and the team’s Head of Goalkeeping.
With One Knoxville SC, Jaramillo oversaw the development of back-to-back USL League One Golden Glove winner Sean Lewis, who also earned league Goalkeeper of the Year honors in 2024 and was a finalist for the award in 2023. The netminder posted a league-best 0.73 goals-against average last season and made 53 total saves, good for sixth most in the league.
The squad produced 15 clean sheets overall between the 2024 USL Jägermeister Cup and the regular season, seven from Lewis and eight more courtesy of Johan Garibay.
Garibay led all netminders in clean sheets, with four, during the 2024 USL Jägermeister Cup as well, on the strength of a 0.59 goals-against average.
Prior to his time with One Knoxville SC, Jaramillo served as the Assistant Director of Goalkeeping with NCFC Youth from 2021-22. There, he was responsible for training and developing goalkeepers for NCFC (USL League One) and the NC Courage (NWSL).
From 2019-21, Jaramillo coached with Tormenta FC, assisting with USL League One, USL League Two and USL Academy Training on a daily basis while also training goalkeepers for League One and Two programs. He spearheaded the USL Academy program as well, running and managing player pools to help develop and identify players as prospects for USL Academy contracts with USL League One.
Jaramillo’s USL experience also includes time spent with the Des Moines Menace in 2019 and the Mississippi Brilla from 2016-18.
He brings extensive collegiate coaching experience to his role with the Knights as well, beginning with his most recent tenure with Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia, from 2016-2020. In addition to serving as a goalkeepers coach during that time, he graduated from Young Harris with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2018.
Jaramillo served as an assistant coach with the women’s team at Barry University in the fall of 2019, and also aided in the development of the goalkeepers at Palm Beach Atlantic University from 2015-16.
Nick and his wife, Laura, have four children, Landon, Noah, Alexis and Oliver.