Scott Hackett-Dalgliesh or Coach Dags as he is known, completed his 5
th year as Head Coach at RPI, coaching 3 full seasons due to covid, all of which the Engineers were ranked in the Top 20. During those 3-seasons the Engineers have competed in the Liberty League Championships all three years. He has led the team to defeat three Top 10 and 3 Top 20 nationally ranked teams, as the Engineers themselves have been consistently ranked in the Top 20.
Over the past two seasons the Engineers have accomplished some impressive feats. 2023 marked the best Liberty League regular season record (6-1) the Engineers have had since 2010, while also knocking off the 6
th, 10
th and 18
th ranked teams in DIII. In 2022 they entered the Top-10 for the first time since 2011, defeated Middlebury College for the first time since 1971 and returned to NCAA Tournament for 1st time since 2016. Beat #1 RIT, defending and 2022 National Champions for the first time since 2012, snapped their 23-game win-streak dating back to 2019, and put a halt to their 27-game Liberty League win-streak dating back to 2017.
In each of the 3 complete seasons he has guided a freshman to Liberty League Rookie of the Year. He has also helped develop 10 All-Americans during his tenure. In addition, 15 of his players have earned All Liberty League Honors and 8 have played in the USILA North/South Senior All-Star game.
Coach Dags has mentored 8 USILA Scholar All-Americans, including a program record 4 in 2022, and 108 Liberty League All-Academic Team honorees (a league leading and program record 28 in 2021). He also coached Nick Porter, Strength & Conditioning Career Athlete Award winner for RPI Athletics in 2022, Nolan Farina, 2022 Perseverance Award winner (given to a senior student-athlete who overcame a significant physical or personal obstacle and demonstrated exceptional effort in exhibiting their commitment to their teammates and the Institute, JT Kelly a 2019 National Strength & Conditioning All-American, and 2022 graduate Josh Kerpask who received the Leopold L. Balleisen Award for the varsity athlete who stands highest in his class academically.
A veteran coach, he spent time as an assistant at the DIII and DI levels, while also a stint as a DIII head coach. He served as the offensive coordinator at Brown University under the tutelage of Lars Tiffany, now the Head Coach and multi-time National Champion at the University of Virginia. At Brown he helped recruit many of the players that would be catalysts for the Bears Final 4 NCAA Tournament run in 2016. He also worked at Lafayette College, where he assisted 2010 Patriot League Coach of the Year Terry Mangan. Serving as a defensive coordinator, Coach Dags helped the Leopards to one of the most improved seasons in Division I on its way to the program’s first-ever national ranking reaching as high as 8
th in the country and the program's first appearance in the Patriot League Tournament.
He joined the Rensselaer staff from Dartmouth College. While with the Big Green, Coach Dags was a top assistant and recruiting coordinator. On the field, he coordinated a defense that was nationally-ranked in saves and caused turnovers in 2016. He moved to the offense in his next two seasons, mentoring a unit that increased its productivity in several categories, including goals per game and points per season. He also coached the 56th pick in the 2018 Major League Lacrosse Draft and Dartmouth's first draftee since 2007.
A 2007 graduate of Dickinson College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Policy, Hackett-Dalgliesh played attack and helped set numerous conference and program records upon graduating. The Maryland native earned his Master's in Public Administration at Marywood University where he got his start in coaching and returned back to Scranton as their head coach at one point during his career.
He and his wife Sarah, a Special Gifts Officer in Advancement at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, reside in Bennington, VT.
