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Nick was one of those young men that Lee College basketball coach Dale Hughes had always dreamed about when he walked onto the campus in the fall of 1970. Leg problems prevented Nick from playing in scheduled games, but he quickly became a very valuable Viking for some 14 years.
 
Nick did whatever coach Hughes and the team needed done, including becoming the unofficial assistant coach, academic advisory for athletics and Lee's first Sports Information Director. He also became the "Voice of the Vikings" and did all the home games. In the meantime he was called on to practice with a Viking team that defeated Azusa Pacific to bring Lee's first NCCA championship back to Cleveland.
 
A successful businessman, who spent over 38 years as a highly decorated insurance person, Nick says the Lee College Vikings and coach Hughes were instrumental during all his professional years.
 
He became a nine-time member of the Million Dollar Round Table, won numerous National Quality Awards, and National Sales Achievement awards. Nick was named the recipient of the prestigious William E. Turner Award, awarded to the best example of an Insurance Agent.  Twice he was named an Exceptional Producer. He later bought insurance agencies and had offices and/or agents in Chattanooga, Dayton, Sweetwater, Etowah, Cleveland and Athens.
 
Nick continued to take time be a part of Lee, the Cleveland community and his church, serving on the board of the Bradley Country Hospital Foundation throughout its existence, and many other church and community committees. For the past 20 years he has been a team leader for Men Women of Action, building and or remodeling churches, hospitals, schools, parsonages around the world.