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Nick Dials will enter his first season on the sidelines on head coach Damon Goodwin's staff in 2021-22. Dials most recently served as a head coach with the NCAA College Basketball Academy. In that role, Dials was selected as one of the top coaches in the region and worked with some of the top talent in the Midwest. 

Prior to that role, Dials was the head coach at Urbana University. In his time with Urbana, he oversaw all facets of the program, while helping turn the program around prior to the university's closure. While with the Knights, Nick guided the school's first multi-year All-Conference player, two freshman to All-Conference accolades, and coached five players to average double-digit scoring. Off the court, Dials led his team to complete over 600 hours of community service work while improving the team's GPA from a 2.6 to 3.1 in the classroom. 

Before starting at Urbana, Nick held multiple assistant coaching positions with several high-level programs within the Midwest area. He spent two seasons on staff at the University of Toledo where he helped mentor six All-MAC players and four All-MAC academic recipients. Prior to Toledo, Dials was an assistant for two years at Rogers State where he mentored five All-Conference selections. Before his two assistant coaching roles, Dials was the Director of Basketball Operations for Miami University and the University of Akron. He got his start in coaching after college with Alderson-Broaddus College. There, he helped the Battlers to a 24-7 record and qualification to the NCAA tournament.  

Dials graduated from the University of Akron in 2008 with a degree in Business Organization and completed his Master's in Recreation and Leisure Administration from the University of Toledo recently. He currently resides in Marysville.