The 2025 Season was Scott Hackett-Dalgliesh or Coach Dags as he is known, 7th season as Head Coach at RPI. During his 5-full seasons, due to covid, he has taken RPI to 3 NCAA Tournaments including trips to the Sweet 16 & Elite 8, won a Liberty League Championship, and made 5-straight Liberty playoff appearances.
Honors/Accomplishments as Head Coach
- 2025 NCAA Tournament Elite 8, 2024 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 & 2022 NCAA Tournament 2nd Round
- 2024 Liberty League Champions
- 2024 IMCLA Region II Coaching Staff of the Year
- 14 victories over Top-20 teams, 10 of them over Top-10 teams & 4 over Top-5 teams
- 17-weeks ranked in the Top 5 during the 2025 & 2024 seasons
- 17 wins in 2024 is the record for most victories in a single season & 16 in 2025 is 2nd
- 1 Tewaaraton Watchlist selection
- 26 All-Americans
- 1 National Player of the Year Award winner & Liberty League Defensive Player of the Year, Goalie Joseph Perry
- 31 All-Liberty League selections
- 3 Liberty League Rookies of the Year
- 10 USILA North-South Senior All-Stars
- 22 Scholar All-Americans
- 2 Balleisen Award winners (Caleb Oswari, Josh Kerpsack) for the student-athlete with the highest GPA who contributes on the field.
- 146 Liberty League All-Academic honorees
- 52 victories for the class of 2025, the winningest class in program history
Notable Games as Head Coach
- May 11, 2025 – RPI beat #5 Wesleyan College 13-7 advancing to the NCAA Quarterfinals
- April 16, 2025 – RPI defeated Amherst College 15-5 for the first-time ever
- March 19, 2025 – RPI defeated Williams College 14-9 marking the first-time RPI has ever defeated them in back-to-back years
- May 5, 2024 – RPI defeated #2 RIT 15-14 to win the Liberty League Championship ending RIT's undefeated 23-game Liberty League Tournament steak as well as their 62-game home winning-streak in Liberty League play
- April 13, 2024 – RPI beats #7 Union 16-12 to win his 50th Career game at RPI & tied the program record for most consecutive wins (13) in single season with the 1948 team
- March 23, 2024 – RPI defeated #2 RIT 10-9 in OT
- April 22, 2023 – RPI beats #6 St. Lawrence 13-7 to finish 2nd in the Liberty League
- March 13, 2022 – RPI defeated Middlebury College 14-11 for the first time since 1971
- April 2, 2022 – RPI beat #1 RIT 13-12, defending and eventual 2022 National Champions, 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.
Coaching Career Prior to RPI
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 8th 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.
Marywood University was where he got his start in coaching and he returned back to Scranton as their head coach at one point during his career. He also did a stint at UMass Lowell as an assistant coach helping launch that program in its first season competing in DI.
Playing Career & Personal Life
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 including helping them enter the Top-10 for the first time. The Maryland native earned his Master's in Public Administration at Marywood University.
He and his wife Sarah, a Special Gifts Officer in Advancement at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, reside in Bennington, VT with their daughter and yellow lab.
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