The Fargo American Legion baseball program on Sunday named Jeff Fiechtner as its new head coach.
Fiechtner, who played for the program in the mid 1970s, becomes the 22nd head coach in the program’s history. He succeeds Bill Ibach, who was not retained after eight years as head coach of the team.
Fiechtner, a member of the Fargo American Legion Hall of Fame, played for Fargo from 1974 to 1976 and was named the North Dakota Legion Player of the Year following the 1976 season.
He’s also held assistant coach positions with the Fargo American Legion on several occasions, the last coming from 1992 to 1996.
After leaving the Fargo program, Fiechtner played college baseball at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz., where he helped the team win two NAIA national championships. He eventually reached the Double A level with the San Diego Padres.
For the past 11 years Fiechtner has been the head coach of the Fargo North high school baseball program, leading the Spartans to one state championship in 2002, two state runnerup finishes (2003 and 2006), four Eastern Dakota Conference tournament titles and three EDC regular-season championships.