Jamestown  (CSi)  The hiring of Brian Mistro as the next head football coach at the University of Jamestown was announced Wednesday  at Harold Newman Arena.

Mistro,is  a former safety for the Jimmies and 2009 UJ graduate.

For the past seven seasons is was  an assistant football coach at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He was first hired as defensive backs coach for the Cobbers in 2012.

Mistro, is originally from Gilbert, Arizona, and he will be the 20th person to serve as head coach  for Jimmie football, and  the fifth since 2008 joining Bud Etzold, Shawn Frank, Travis Titus and Josh Kittell.

Kittell resigned earlier this month to become the recruiting coordinator at North Dakota State University after three seasons heading up the program.

Mistro has a master’s degree from Northern State University (S.D.), where he was also the safeties coach during a two-year period as a graduate assistant for NSU football. He played in 19 games for the Jimmies between 2007-08, recording 62 total tackles and three interceptions.