Rob Dils has been a volunteer assistant coach for the Engineers since the 2003-04 season.
Prior to joining the staff, he was the head coach of the Shaker-Colonie varsity boys' hockey team. In 2002, his team won the Section 2 Championship, the Suburban Council Team Sportsmanship Award and finished ranked seventh in New York State. The next year, his team was the State Scholar-Athlete Champions.
Dils was an assistant for Shaker-Colonie for three years before becoming head coach. He was also an assistant for the Shaker High School boys' team for two years.
A 1993 graduate of Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages, Dils went on to finish his Master of Arts in Teaching at Union the following year. He is currently an English teacher in Schenectady.
Dils and his wife, Hope, and their sons, Nolan and Mason, reside in Troy.
