Jeff Nickerson enters his 14th season as Head Coach of the Dragons in 2021-22.   

Nickerson has a career mark of 489-403-1. While at Tiffin University, Coach Nickerson has compiled a 321-290-1 mark along with a 180-148-1 combined conference record between the GLIAC and GMAC, a 116-69 mark at the Paradiso Athletic Complex, and a 145-146 record on the road. On April 9, 2019, Nickerson earned his 286th career victory, setting a new school record for softball wins that will continue to climb.

The Dragons, under his direction, have made their mark in the GLIAC, GMAC, and nationally, as TU reached the NCAA National Tournament twice and made the GLIAC/GMAC playoffs in eight of the last nine seasons (no conference tourney in 2019-20 due to Covid-19 pandemic). The squad also won the 2011 regular season and GLIAC Tournament Championship and entered the NCAA Regional as the top seed. He was named GLIAC Coach of the Year in 2011.

Prior to coming to Tiffin, he had head coaching stints at Presbyterian College in South Carolina and Ohio Northern University. 

During his three-year tenure at Presbyterian College, he compiled an overall mark of 108 wins against 69 losses, including a 24-18 record within the South Atlantic Conference (SAC).  Nickerson led the Lady Blue Hose to a school record 48 wins during his first year, guiding the program to its first-ever SAC Tournament Championship and their first appearance in the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament in 2004 where they fell in the Regional Championship. He earned SAC and National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) South Atlantic Region Coach of the Year honors in 2004, while coaching nine all-conference players, including the 2005 SAC Freshman of the Year and an NFCA All-South Atlantic Region player in 2006.

During his time at Ohio Northern, Nickerson built the softball program from one with a losing season his first year to recording two straight 20-win seasons in 2002 and 2003. He got his start at ONU as an assistant coach during the 2000 season before being named interim head coach in 2001. He assumed the full-time position after the 2001 season. He also was an assistant softball coach at Capital University and Cortland State University in New York. 

Nickerson graduated cum laude from Cortland State University in Cortland, New York with a Bachelors of Science degree in Physical Education in 1998. He earned his Masters in Developmental Kinesiology with an emphasis in Physical Education in 2001 from Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He and his wife, Mindy, and children Chelsea, Jordan, and Keagen reside in Tiffin, Ohio.