Cornell College Football Camps - Mount Vernon, Iowa

Cornell College Football Camps

Coaching Staff

Don Dicus
Offensive Coordinator

Dicus, a 1985 Cornell graduate, begins his first season on the Rams' staff as offensive coordinator.

Dicus coached and taught for 23 years at Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was head coach at Cardinal Newman from 2004-08, guiding the Crusaders to three playoff appearances, one district championship and two district runner-up finishes. Dicus served as the school's defensive coordinator for 18 years prior to taking the head post in 2004.

During his tenure at Cardinal Newman, he coached 29 all-staters, 20 NCAA Division I players and three All-Americans. Eleven of his graduates currently play college football.

Dicus was an assistant baseball coach at Cardinal Newman for 16 years and held the title as Dean of Student five years. He also was head of the physical education department.

Dicus returns to his alma mater after a successful playing career with the Rams from 1981-85. A member of Cornell's All-Century Team, Dicus was a four-year football letterwinner and earned first team all-conference honors at defensive end in his junior and senior seasons. As a senior co-captain in 1984, he helped lead the 8-2 Rams to the Midwest Conference championship.

Dicus earned a bachelor's degree in education in May 1985. He also played baseball two years at Cornell.

Dicus and his wife, Tonya, have two daughters, Taylor, 15, and Delaney, 10.

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Jeff Rogers
Defensive Line

Rogers, a 2008 graduate of UW-River Falls, enters his second season on Cornell's staff in 2009 as defensive line coach.

Rogers was a three-sport athlete and 1994 graduate of Watertown (Wis.) High School. Rogers earned a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in coaching from UW-River Falls in May 2008. He held previous positions as assistant football coach at Theisen Junior High School (1995-98), defensive coordinator at Shell Lake High School (2000-03), defensive line coach at Augsburg College (2004) and defensive line and linebackers coach at UW-River Falls (2005-07).

Rogers and his wife, Katie, were married in February 2008.

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Josh Rife
Offensive Line

Rife, a 1996 graduate of Mount Vernon High School, begins his second season on Cornell's football staff in 2009 as offensive line coach.

Rife was an all-district football performer at Mount Vernon and helped lead the Mustangs to Class 3A state football championships in 1993 and 1994. He was a four-year football letterwinner and three-year starter at St. Olaf College and earned all-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference recognition in football and track.

Rife, a National Merit Scholar, received a bachelor's degree in political science from St. Olaf in 2001. He has held previous positions at Mount Vernon as assistant football coach and assistant girls track and field coach.