Duke Dickerson joined the Colonials in 2008 as an Assistant Coach. Dickerson’s primary responsibilities will include working with the pitchers and catchers, strength and conditioning, recruiting in the Midwest, and placing WCSU players in the nation’s most competitive summer collegiate baseball leagues.

A pitcher at Virginia Tech (ACC), as a freshman Dickerson rose to prominence by shutting down College World Series Runner-Up South Carolina 2-1. For an encore his sophomore year, Dickerson set an all-time school record by going 10-2 with wins over nationally ranked powerhouses North Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. That same year, the Hokies set an NCAA Division I record for the longest winning streak in the history of college baseball with 33 wins and went on to the NCAA Regionals for the second year in a row. Dickerson transferred to Lipscomb University (Atlantic Sun) for his senior year where the Bison went on to win the National Championship.

Following his professional playing career with the Toronto Blue Jays' organization, Dickerson worked for five years with the New York Yankees AAA Columbus Clippers, and then went on to join former Major League Baseball alum Dan Briggs as an Assistant Coach at NCAA Division III Denison University in Granville, OH.

Coach Dickerson has been actively involved in the development of baseball in Germany and with a USA Baseball developmental team, the Connecticut Titans who finished the 2007 campaign with a 44-17 record to earn them a final ranking of #3 in the nation. Coach Dickerson, who has a PhD in Health Sciences and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business, is married with two children and lives in Danbury, CT.