{"id":342604,"date":"2026-07-16T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:24:08","slug":"cape-coral-cop-and-bmx-coach-nick-jones-to-lead-team-usa-in-australia-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342604\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral cop and BMX coach Nick Jones to lead Team USA in Australia | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral<\/a> man is once again taking his coaching talents to the world stage.<\/p>\n

Nick Jones has been selected to coach Team USA at the BMX World Championships<\/a> in Australia for the third time. Jones, the track operator at Cape Coral BMX, is one of just eight coaches selected to lead Team USA at the championships.<\/p>\n

“I was always Team USA everything, the Olympics, right now the World Cup. I don’t care. I’m cheering Team USA, and so now being able to, you know, coach and represent your country with something that says Team USA across your chest, it’s really fulfilling,” Jones said.<\/p>\n

Jones didn’t grow up on a BMX track. It was his kids who got him involved, and he has gone from cheering them on to coaching some of the world’s best riders.<\/p>\n

He’ll be coaching more than 400 American riders from across the country overseas. Jones has spent the last decade building something special at home.<\/p>\n

“When I first started, we probably had about 15 kids that were coming consistently, and now we have riders in the hundreds. They rank each track, and we were ranked, I think, 120th in the country, which wasn’t too bad, you know, for a small track that we are. And the last time I checked, so far this year we’re ranked sixth in the country,” Jones said.<\/p>\n

When he isn’t coaching riders, Jones serves the community as a patrol sergeant with the Cape Coral Police Department. He says both jobs share the same mission\u2014making a difference.<\/p>\n

“This is my outlet, you know, getting to hang out with the kids and being in a positive environment-they have more of an impact on me, honestly, than I do on them, and they don’t realize that,” Jones said.<\/p>\n

Jones says Crosby Backer, one local rider, has a legitimate chance of bringing home the title from Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral man is once again taking his coaching talents to the world stage.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115,110],"class_list":["post-342604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}