Casey Dickson - Softball Coach

Casey Dickson

Title:
Head Coach

Casey Dickson is in her third season as the head coach of the Temple softball team. In Dickson's second season the team posted an 18-21 overall record and its first postseason appearance since 2004. She produced the first Atlantic 10 Softball Player Of The Year since 1989 in Adrienne Repsher. Temple junior outfielder Brittany Burks was named to the 2007 Atlantic 10 Softball All-Championship team, while Repsher tabbed All-Mid-Atlantic Region. Dickson also helped coach Repsher to acquiring five all-time school records. The team held a .330 batting average placing them second in the league. The 2007 season schedule showed tough competition as the Owls took the field against teams such as Arizona and Oklahoma. In her first season of duty, Dickson guided the Owls to a 22-23 finish overall and a 12-6 conference mark. The Owls' fifth place finish in the Atlantic 10, following a 4-12 '05 campaign, was a credit to the team's .282 batting average. During the 2006 season the team held a nine game winning streak, the longest since an 11 game stint in 2002. Prior to accepting the head coaching responsibilities on North Broad Street, Dickson served as the Head Softball Coach at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas the last two years. At Frank Phillips, she helped to establish the program which began intercollegiate competition in 2002. Dickson took over a team that was winless in its inaugural season of competition and guided it to 11 victories in her last year despite moving from Division III to Division I of the Western Junior Athletic Conference. Her biggest accomplishment while at Frank Phillips came off the field of play. Dickson's 2005 team earned a combined 3.62 cumulative GPA and was named the National Junior College Athletic Association All-Academic Team of the Year. Stints as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I programs such as Tulsa University (1999), Nicholls State University (2000) and Texas-San Antonio (2001) served as the proving ground for Dickson. She also took over the head coaching reins at Nicholls State on an interim basis following the 2000 season, and was the head coach of the 18-and-under Oklahoma City L'il Saints in 2003. A four-year softball letterwinner during her days as a first baseman at Oklahoma, Dickson set single-season school records for home runs (17) and RBI's (61) her senior season in 1997. 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. 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). A 2000 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Dickson is currently working on her master's degree through the National Fast-pitch Coaches College. Dickson's father coaches for the Arizona Lil' Saints Gold. MAIN CAMPUS OFFICE PHONE: (215) 204-8742 MAIN CAMPUS FAX: (215) 204-5254 AMBLER CAMPUS OFFICE PHONE: (215) 283-1323 AMBLER CAMPUS FAX: (215) 283-1209