Dan Hickson is in his third season with the Terrapins and his second as director of football operations. He served as an assistant recruiting coordinator in 2005.
Hickson's responsibilities include organizing all aspects of team travel, helping coordinate summer football camps, and organizing recruiting weekends.
He came to Maryland after three years as offensive line coach at Georgetown University where he recruited Maryland, Washington D.C., Connecticut, Rhode Island, Tennessee and North Carolina for the Hoyas.
He joined the Hoyas after two years as an offensive line coach at Good Counsel High School in Wheaton, Md., a school that he had previously served as a coach (1990-99) and assistant athletics director (1997-2002). In between stops at Good Counsel, Hickson also worked for two years as offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Catholic University in D.C.
A retired police lieutenant who was a member of D.C.'s Metro Police force for over 23 years, Hickson is also the father of former Maryland graduate assistant, Brian Hickson, and a member of the Maryland High School Football Coaches Association and the American Football Coaches Association.
Hickson and his wife Maureen have two grown children, Brian and Michael.
