Scott Dicheck

The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)

Team:men & women

After taking over The College of New Jersey’s men’s and women’s tennis teams in the fall of 2000, Scott Dicheck enjoyed a highly successful career with the Lions. Dicheck, the reigning 2011 New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, has guided TCNJ to the conference championship in each of his previous 12 seasons going 60-0 in NJAC matches.

In 2011-12, Dicheck directed the Lions to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as the team finished with 16 wins for the third time in the last four seasons. TCNJ also captured the NJAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Overall, the Lions have won 142 straight dual meets and all 29 championships dating back to the 1982 season when the NJAC began sponsoring women's tennis as a conference sport.

During his tenure, he has coached 15 combined NCAA and ITA All-Americans and one ITA National Champion. Jackie Shtemberg accomplished that feat in 2007.

Dicheck came to TCNJ in the fall of 2000 after serving as the head men’s and women’s tennis coach at Allentown College from 1996–2000.

A 1992 graduate of Moravian College, Dicheck was the No. 1 singles and doubles player for the Greyhounds his freshman and sophomore seasons. Tapped as team MVP one year, he started his coaching career becoming a tennis professional at the Westend Racquet Club in Allentown, PA. He held that position for nearly ten years after starting in December of 1990. A graduate of Voorhees High School, he was the top singles performer there as a junior and senior, and was also named team MVP twice.

Active in the local tennis community, Dicheck has been involved with the USTA Junior Development Program as an instructor and in 1989 served as instructor at the Frank Brennan Tennis Academy instructing the Russian National Junior Team. He has also been actively involved with community service both as a charity tennis tournament organizer and participant. He was awarded the United States Tennis Association and Intercollegiate Tennis Association Middle States Campus Recreation Award in 2004. That same year, he was appointed to the Middle States College Committee and named to the USTA Advocacy Steering Committee. In addition to running TCNJ's club tennis team, Dicheck has also supervised the 2004-2006 teams that participated in the USA Team Tennis National Campus Championships.

Dicheck received his master’s degree in sports management at East Stroudsburg University in 2000.