Jake Dickert

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Jake Dickert
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Washington State
Conference Pac-12
Record23–20
Biographical details
Born (1983-08-23) August 23, 1983 (age 41)
Playing career
2002–2006 Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Position(s) Wide receiver
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2007 Wisconsin–Stevens Point (GA)
2008 North Dakota State (GA)
2009–2010North Dakota State (S)
2011 South Dakota (ST/DB)
2012 Southeast Missouri State (DB)
2013 Augustana (SD) (DC)
2014–2015 Minnesota State (DC/LB)
2016 South Dakota State (co-ST/S)
2017–2018 Wyoming (S)
2019Wyoming (DC/LB)
2020–2021 Washington State (DC/LB)
2021Washington State (interim HC)
2022–presentWashington State
Head coaching record
Overall23–20
Bowls0–2

Jacob Dickert (born August 23, 1983) [1] is an American college football coach. He is the head coach at Washington State University. Prior to this, he served as defensive coordinator at Washington State University, beginning in 2020. Dickert attended school and played football at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and has coached at various colleges and universities since his graduation in 2007.

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Playing career

Dickert began his high school career at Oconto High School in Oconto, Wisconsin. [2] His father, Jeffrey Dickert, was the superintendent of the Oconto School District. The family moved to Kohler, Wisconsin, for Jake's senior year after Jeffrey took the job of superintendent there, [3] and Jake finished his high school career at Kohler High School. [2]

The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, then coached by John Miech, recruited Dickert to play quarterback, where he backed up future Canadian Football League player Scott Krause. He converted to wide receiver for the 2005 season. His senior year in 2006 was interrupted by a case of appendicitis, but he returned to the playing field two weeks after surgery. [4] Dickert's seven receptions per game that year led the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) and he was named to the second team all-conference. [5] [6]

Coaching career

Dickert graduated from Stevens Point in 2007 and joined Miech's staff as a graduate assistant for a year. He then moved to North Dakota State for the 2008 season, also as a graduate assistant. Head coach Craig Bohl promoted him to safeties' coach in 2009. [7] [8] He left in 2011 to become special teams coordinator at South Dakota under Ed Meierkort, in what turned out to be his last year as head coach. Dickert replaced Chuck Morrell, who had left to become the head coach at Montana Tech. [9]

South Dakota fired Meierkort after the 2011 season. [10] Dickert spent a year on Tony Samuel's staff at Southeast Missouri State coaching defensive backs before returning to the state of South Dakota in 2013 to become defensive coordinator at Augustana University under first-year head coach Jerry Olszewski. Under Dickert, Augustana ranked third in total defense in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, and at the end of the season Minnesota State hired him away to become defensive coordinator there. [11] [12]

Dickert coached the defense for the 2014 and 2015 seasons under head coach Todd Hoffner. Minnesota State compiled a 24–3 record over those two seasons, including losing the 2014 NCAA Division II Football Championship to CSU–Pueblo. After two successful seasons, Dickert departed to become safeties coach at South Dakota State under long-time head coach John Stiegelmeier and defensive coordinator Clint Brown. [7] Dickert departed after the 2016 season to become safeties coach at the University of Wyoming. The move reunited him with Craig Bohl, now Wyoming's head coach but previously the head coach at North Dakota State from 2003 to 2013. [13] In 2019, Wyoming promoted Dickert to defensive coordinator after Scottie Hazelton departed for the same job at Kansas State. [14]

In 2020, Dickert received his first Power Five coaching position when he was hired as defensive coordinator by new Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich. Wyoming assistants AJ Cooper and John Richardson accompanied Dickert in his move to Pullman. [15] In October 2021, Washington State fired Rolovich and four assistant coaches, including Richardson, for refusing to comply with the state's COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Dickert then took over as acting head coach. [16] On November 27, 2021, Washington State announced the naming of Dickert as their permanent head coach; the promotion came a day after the Cougars finished the regular season with a resounding 40–13 win over in-state rival Washington in the Apple Cup.

Head coaching record

YearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowl/playoffs
Washington State Cougars (Pac-12 Conference)(2021–present)
2021 Washington State 3–3 [a] 3–12nd (North)L Sun
2022 Washington State 7–64–57thL LA
2023 Washington State 5–72–7T–9th
2024 Washington State 8–40–1 Holiday
Washington State:23–209–14
Total:23–20
  1. ↑ Dickert took over as interim coach after seven games

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  2. 1 2 Keup, Paul (October 18, 2001). "Vikes cautious in trip to Kohler". Manitowoc Herald-Times . p. 13. Retrieved October 20, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
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  7. 1 2 "SDSU FB adds Dickert to staff". Argus Leader . February 17, 2016. p. D4. Retrieved October 20, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
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