In August of 2019, Casey Dickson was hired as the pitching coach for the Towson University softball team.
Dickson joins the Tiger family after being the co-owner of Sports Doctor Athletics Indoor and Outdoor Sports Facility. Not only was she the manager of the facility, staff and events, Dickson provided professional instruction as well.
"We are super excited to have Casey join our staff," Costello said. "She brings a lot of experience at different levels and is great fit with our program."
Dickson served as the head softball coach at Austin Peay State University where the Lady Govs were 15-38 in her first season at the helm, and the 15 wins were the highest win total for a first-year coach in the program's history and the second best since softball was made a conference sponsored sport by the Ohio Valley Conference.
The Lady Govs had their first OVC Pitcher and Player of the Week winners during her tenure with Morgan Brewer earning Pitcher of the Week and Shine Huwe was named Player of the Week. Catie Cozart won CoSIDA Academic All-District Second Team honors with a 3.36 grade point average.
Prior to Austin Peay, Dickson spent three seasons at Temple University as the head softball coach. While at Temple she produced the Owls' first Atlantic 10 Softball Player of the Year in Adrienne Repsher.
Dickson spent three seasons as the head softball coach at Frank Phillips College. The 2005 team earned a combined 3.62 cumulative grade point average and was named the National Junior College Athletic Association All-Academic Team of the Year.
Dickson also had stints as an assistant coach at Tulsa University (1999), Nicholls State (2000) and Texas-San Antonio (2001).
Dickson was a four-year softball letterwinner at University of Oklahoma as a first baseman. She set single-season school records for home runs (17) and RBIs (61) during her senior season. She ended her four years at OU as one of the school's most prolific offensive players, sitting atop career lists for RBI's (166), home runs (27), total bases (337) and walks (118). The first Oklahoma player to receive All-Midwest Region honors three times (1995-97), the three-time all-conference selection led the Sooners to four straight NCAA Tournaments.
Dickson received her bachelor's degree in English literature in 2000 from the University of Oklahoma.
Following her collegiate playing career, Dickson was selected by Tampa Bay in the first Women's Professional Softball League draft. She opted to play with the California Redding Rebels in the Women's Major Softball League (1997).
