Mike Dickson enters his 11th season as Rowan’s head baseball coach in 2025, having led the Profs to seven straight NCAA Regional appearances (in nine full seasons of competition), a berth in the NCAA Division III College World Series in 2021 and two Super Regionals in the past three seasons.
Dickson, who also serves in the role of assistant athletic director, has guided the program to two New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Championships, with the most recent coming in 2021. A member of the Rowan Athletics Hall of Fame, he has compiled a 275-120 record as the Profs’ head coach.
His overall coaching record stands at 635-208 in 19 years, counting nine successful seasons in the junior college ranks at Rowan College at Gloucester County (RCGC; formerly Gloucester County College).
The Profs earned their seventh straight berth in the NCAA Regionals in 2024 and went 29-15 on the season. Rowan was nationally-ranked for the majority of the year, reaching a high of number-five in the early going. Second baseman Tyler Cannon became the fourth Prof in the last three seasons to be named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-America Team.
In 2023, Rowan went 33-15 and made its third straight appearance in the NCAA Super Regionals and won its third consecutive NJAC regular-season title, by posting a 13-5 conference record. The Profs won the NCAA Ambler Regional to advance to the NCAA Salisbury Super Regional. Rowan was nationally-ranked all year, reaching a high of number-five, and finished the year ranked 14th. Dickson was named the NJAC Coach of the Year for the second time.
The 2022 Profs were nationally-ranked the entire season, reaching a high of fourth in the polls. Rowan captured its second straight NJAC regular-season title with a 16-2 and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship, earning the top seed in the NCAA Annville (PA) Regional. The Profs finished the year with a 33-10 record and reached the NCAA Willimantic (CT) Super Regional where they were eliminated by eventual national champion Eastern Connecticut State.
Dickson's Profs were the top seed in the NCAA Marietta (Ohio) Regional in 2021 and captured the Regional Championship to advance to their first NCAA Division III World Series since 2005. He also directed the Profs to their second NJAC Championship during his tenure, and the 17th in school history, Rowan went 29-6 overall and 17-1 in conference play and finished the season ranked seventh in the nation in the D3Baseball.com poll, its highest ranking since the inaugural poll in 2010. With the success of the 2021 season, he was honored as the ABCA Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year and as the NJAC Coach of the Year, earning both awards for the first time in his career.
Five of Dickson’s former players have gone on to sign professional contracts, with Andrew DiPiazza signing a minor-league deal with the Colorado Rockies in 2020, after starting his career in the American Association of Independent Baseball League. Matt Woods was selected in the 29th round of the 2019 MLB Draft and Danny Sereino was chosen in the 32nd round of that same draft. Andrew Cartier also signed a contract in the American Association while Andrew Cohen inked a contract in the USPBL.
The 2019 Profs went 32-13, captured the NJAC regular-season title with a 14-4 record and earned their third NCAA bid under Dickson while reaching the Regional Final. Center fielder Matt Woods, one of the top offensive players in the nation, was named the NJAC Player of the Year and earned All-America Second Team honors by both the ABCA and D3baseball.com. They began the 2020 season ranked 11th in the nation, but saw that campaign cut short by the pandemic after only six games.
Rowan captured the NJAC Championship in 2018 and participated in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional, ending the year with a 35-11 record, for the most wins under Dickson. Right-hander pitcher Danny Serreino, the region’s ABCA Pitcher of the Year, was tabbed an All-American, with second-team honors by D3baseball.com and third-team status by the ABCA.
In 2017, the Profs reached the final day of the NJAC Championship and earned their first NCAA bid under Dickson playing in the South Regional and finishing the season with a 29-18 record. Named the 10th coach in Rowan’s history in 2014-15, his first team went 25-14 while the 2016 squad finished the campaign at 24-18.
Dickson returned to the University after leading RCGC to a 360-88 record and two National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III Championships, in 2010 and 2013. That 2013 squad went 49-3 and earned the school’s seventh national title while Dickson received the Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year award from the College Baseball Hall of Fame, an honor that encompasses all levels of college baseball.
In 2010, RCGC went 43-2 to post the highest single-season winning percentage in NJCAA Division III history en route to the national championship. Dickson was named the Coach of the Year by the NJCAA, the ABCA and Diamond Sports, and in his nine seasons there, he earned the District Coach of the Year honor six times. That team was inducted into the school’s Roadrunner Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019.
He began his coaching career in 2001 at his alma mater, Gloucester Catholic High School, and then returned to Rowan later that year, and in four seasons with the Profs, helped them go 96-32, win two NJAC titles and advance to the Division III World Series in 2004. Dickson then joined the staff at the University of Pennsylvania before taking the post at RCGC.
Dickson was a standout player for the Profs from 1997 to 2000, and in 1999, was chosen to the ABCA All-America Second Team and as the Player of the Year in the NJAC, NJCBA Division II/III and ECAC Metro. He was also a three-time selection to the NJAC All-Conference, New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association (NJCBA) All-State and ABCA All-Region teams. The team captain in 1999 and 2000, Dickson set the school records for hits in a season (72) and career (215), doubles in a career (41), runs in a season (57) and runs per game (1.58), which have since been eclipsed.
Dickson was honored for his playing career with induction into the Rowan University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.
He graduated from Rowan in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in education with a specialization in health and physical education, and earned his master’s from the University in 2005 in higher education administration, while receiving the Medallion Award for academic excellence.
Dickson and his wife, the former Danielle Addeo, who is a 2001 Rowan graduate, have two daughters, Mia and Paige.
