Last season, Tom Dickman coached the Blazers to their most successful season in the program's four-year history. The Blazers went 21-8 overall and won the regular season Capital Athletic Conference title with a stellar conference record of 12-4. Hood capped off its spectacular season earning one of 18 at-large bids to the NCAA Division III Tournament, where the Blazers fell to Hampden-Sydney, 68-65.

After leading Hood to its first ever NCAA Tournament berth, Dickman was honored as the CAC Coach of the Year, D3Hoops.com's Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year and the Bob Flynn Memorial Pride of Maryland Coach of the Year.

Under Dickman's guidance, junior center Jesse Gutekunst was honored as the PrestoSports/Pride of Maryland Player of the Year and was a first-team all-region selection. Additionally, sophomore guard Ryan Junghans earned second team all-region status and joined Gutekunst on the all-state first team.

In Hood's inaugural 2003-04 season, Dickman helped the Blazers achieve a 13-11 mark and followed that with a 12-13 record in 2004-05. That same year, Hood captured their first-ever in-season tournament championship when they downed eventual ECAC Metro Region champion New Jersey City in the title game of the Moravian College Greyhound Starters Classic.

Dickman, who also serves as an assistant director of athletics at Hood and has been the head coach of the men's and women's golf teams since June 2005, played basketball at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va., from 1968-1972 under legendary coach Bob Starkey. Dickman was Starkey's first-ever recruit and was honored as a Shepherd "Outstanding Alumnus" in 1987.

After graduating from Shepherd, Dickman spent one season as an assistant coach for the Rams before taking over as the boy's basketball coach at Gov. Thomas Johnson in 1973. 592 wins-a former Maryland state record for most wins by a public school coach.

In his 29 years at Thomas Johnson, Dickman led the Patriots to remarkable success, winning seven state championships and 18 league championships and also taking four teams to the state runner-up spot and three more to the state semi-finals. He collected a total of 592 victories - a former Maryland state record for most wins by a public school coach. Additionally, Dickman's players were recruited to dozens of collegiate basketball programs, including the University of Maryland, Penn State University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Among Dickman's basketball progeny is Terrence Morris, a 1997 Gov. Thomas Johnson graduate who gained fame at the University of Maryland before moving on to the NBA, where he played for the Houston Rockets and the Orlando Magic.

Dickman's accomplishments include coaching more teams to state championships (7) than any other coach in Maryland history; coaching the U.S. All-Star team in the McDonald's Capital Classic in 1999; being inducted into the Frederick County Hall of Fame; and being named to the Maryland governor's advisory committee on physical fitness in 1999.

Dickman, who was also Thomas Johnson's athletic director, has also served as the president of the Maryland State Basketball Coaches Association.

Dickman is a graduate of Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, W.Va. He earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from Shepherd College and a master's degree in education from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College).

He and his wife, Kay, have three children, Chad, Adam and Erin. Chad and Adam played for their father at Gov. Thomas Johnson and went on to play collegiately at Saint Vincent College and Catholic University, respectively. Chad is now an assistant men's basketball coach at NCAA Division II Wheeling Jesuit University, while Adam joined Hood's coaching staff in 2007. Erin graduated from Gov. Thomas Johnson in 2004 and played volleyball and basketball.

Keith Adams, who led Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Md., to a 54-22 record from 2002-05, was appointed to the Blazers' staff in May 2005. Since his arrival, the Blazers have posted a record of 35-19.

Adams, who works with the Blazers post players and is the program's lead recruiter, owns 17 years of basketball coaching experience. Five of those years came as a high school head coach where, most recently, he turned Springbrook into one of the top programs in the Washington metropolitan area.

In 2004, he led the Blue Devils to the Maryland Class 4A state finals and finished with a 24-4 record. During the season, Springbrook earned a No. 1 ranking in the Washington Post for the first time in school history. Adams was named Coach of the Year by The Gazette (Montgomery), the Montgomery Journal and the Montgomery County Sentinel.

The previous season, Adams led the Blue Devils to an 18-6 record, the Montgomery County 4A/3A East Division championship and a trip the Class 4A West Region finals.

While at Springbrook, Adams coached Folarin Campbell, who went on to George Mason University and helped lead the Patriots to the Final Four during the 2005-06 season.

Adams also served as the head coach at Wootton High School from 2000-02 and led the Patriots to the Maryland Class 4A West semifinals in 2000. He also led the program to its first double-digit win season in almost 10 years.

Prior to taking over at Wootton, Adams was an assistant coach at Paint Branch High School under legendary coach Hank Galotta and his good friend Walter Hardy. Paint Branch won a state championship in 2000 and also claimed regional championships in 1995, 1996 and 2000.

Adams is a Certified Athletic Administrator (CAA) and belongs to a number of professional organizations including the National Education Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Black Coaches Association and the National Interscholastic Administrators Association. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Bowie State University and a master's degree in teaching from Grand Canyon University. He is currently pursuing an administrative leadership certificate at Hood.

Adams, who is active in many different charities including the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the American Red Cross, is married to Cecily Darden Adams and has one stepson, Victor. The Adams family resides in Silver Spring, Md.

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The men's basketball program has added Adam Dickman to the coaching staff for the 2007 spring semester. Dickman, the son of head coach Tom Dickman, will be a great addition to the coaching staff. He played for his father at Gov. Thomas Johnson High School and is familiar with the system.

Dickman has experienced winning at every level including helping Catholic University win the Division III National Championship in 2001. A four-year letterwinner at Catholic, Dickman averaged 5.9 points per game his junior year and shot an astounding 55 percent (34-62) from three-point range. He also captained the team as a senior. The Cardinals amassed a incredible .843 winning percentage (102-19) during his four years.

Dickman gained coaching experience as a counselor at the Thomas Johnson/Hood College Basketball Camps from 1997-2004. Recently, he was a program director for Playing for Peace in Northern Ireland from August to December of 2006. He recruited, organized, and oversaw cross community basketball programs between Protestant and Catholic schools. Dickman also served as a fundraiser, treasurer, manager and coach for the North Star Basketball Club.

Dickman earned his undergraduate degree in marketing from Catholic University in 2004. He also worked as an assistant to the Sports Information Director at Catholic and helped with keeping stats for a variety of different Catholic sporting events.

Frederick native Emonte "Tay" Hill enters his fifth season as an assistant coach with the Hood men's basketball program. Hill played two years of collegiate basketball at Frederick Community College before moving on to the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg, where he played two more seasons. He then began his collegiate coaching career as a student assistant for the Rifles.

Hill was a two-year starter for USC-Spartanburg and as a senior finished 16th in NCAA Division II in assists per game. He closed his career with the Rifles ranked fourth in school history in assists per game (4.51) and ninth all-time in career assists (248) despite playing just two seasons.

He played his first two years of collegiate ball at Frederick Community College and was the team's Most Valuable Player. He was also named a National Junior College Athletic Association All-American.

Hill attended Frederick High School and starred for the Cadets in the backcourt before graduating in 1997. He earned a degree in interdisciplinary studies with concentrations in physical education and business from USC-Spartanburg in 2002.