STAN DAKOSTY

STAN DAKOSTY has been named interim head coach for the Colgate football team for the 2021 season. He has served as associate head football coach at Colgate since 2017 and first joined the football staff in 2007. Dakosty recently coached the secondary and previously was the program’s recruiting coordinator. He has been a part of seven of Colgate’s 10 Patriot League football titles, both as a player and a coach. Dakosty began his coaching career as an undergraduate at Colgate, serving as a student assistant and assistant video coordinator in 2003 before working with the tight ends in 2004. He worked with the team’s tight ends and fullbacks over the first three seasons before switching to the secondary. Prior to coaching, Dakosty played two years of varsity football for the Raiders, helping them to the 2002 Patriot League championship before he suffered a career-ending injury. Dakosty graduated from Colgate in 2005 with a degree in history and educational studies. After graduation, he went to work for Division III Amherst as a running backs coach for two years. While on the Amherst staff, he earned a master’s degree in education in addition to his social studies teacher’s certification at the University of Massachusetts in 2006. As interim head coach at Colgate, Dakosty replaces Dan Hunt who stepped down on May 17 as head football coach to “address personal issues, following the discovery of violation of university policy not involving students.” Hunt had been Colgate head coach since 2014.