Chad Duesler graduated from Dominican University in 2006. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training.

As a 4-year starter for the Chargers baseball program, Chad led the team to their highest winning season with an impressive win-loss record of 42-14 dominating the NCAA Baseball Regional. In 2005, Chad was named “Most Valuable Player of the Eastern College Athletic  Conference Tournament” (ECAC).  

After his College baseball career ended, Chad was offered a job as Associate Head Baseball Coach. He continued to prove his commitment to the Chargers baseball program. So it was no surprise he advanced to become Assistant Facility Manager of the Hennessy Center and Granito Center.

In 2010 Duesler began playing for the Rockland Boulders professional independent baseball team in the CAN-AM League. He was both a player and an assistant coach. He completed his Baseball Career in 2014, but not before winning the League Championship.

In 2017, He earned his fitness trainer certification through the International Sports Science Association (ISSA)  as well as his certification in CPR and AED.

Chad was promoted in 2021 to an Assitant Athletic Director/Recruiting Coordinator for the Dominican University Athletic Department.

In addition to a long list of accolades, Coach Duesler belongs to the ABCA Baseball Coaches Association, which is the primary professional organization for baseball coaches at the amateur level.

In May of 2022, Chad graduated from Dominican University once again only with his Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and Communication.

Then just a month after his Graduation in 2022, Coach Duesler was named Assitant Athletic Director/Recruiting Coordinator for Domincan and Camp Coordinator University’s Athletic Department!  

Coach Chad and his family have a maple syrup business in upstate New York, producing and selling maple products. Chad resides in Pomona, NY, with his beautiful wife, Lindsay  daughter , Olivia, son, Brice, and their dog, Angel.

Head Coach Rick Giannetti is entering is 27th year at the helm of the Charger baseball program. In his time at Dominican he has amassed a record of 723-470 and his overall record stands at 769-520. The 723 victories is the most wins in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) by any Coach in CACC history. He has guided Dominican to 15 CACC Championships, 10 regional tournament appearances, 1 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship and 2 NAIA World Series Appearances. His teams have qualified for post season play every year except one.

Giannetti spent his collegiate career at Ramapo College of New Jersey where he was a member of the baseball team for four years. As a pitcher, he never lost a game in college and for three of those years had a single digit statistic for walks allowed. The Roadrunners also went to three regional tournaments in his tenure there. He graduated in 1982 with a double major B.S. in psychology and business.

His collegiate coaching career started at his alma mater joining the team as an assistant coach in 1983 and helped guide the Roadrunners to a National Championship in 1984. Giannetti then took over the reigns in 1988 and spent two years as the head coach. In that time, he made two conference tournament appearances, won a conference championship in 1988 and made a regional tournament appearance.

Coach Giannetti has been awarded the CACC Coach of the Year award 9 times in his tenure, Regional Coach of the Year Award 5 times and was the 2009 ECAC Coach of the Year. He has also been a finalist for the National Coach of the Year Award 4 times. He has coached 62 All-American players and 147 All-Conference Players and has had 30 players sign professional contracts. He currently serves as the East Region Chairman for Division 2 Baseball and also serves on the ABCA/Rawlings All-American & Gold Glove Committees.

He currently resides in New City, NY with his wife, Vicki, and their three children, A.J., Vincent and Adriana.

Thomas Gavigan is 1985 graduate of Dominican University. During his undergraduate career here at the College, he was 4 year member of the men’s basketball team. A Retired Sergeant from the NYPD, he was hired at Dominican in 2008 as the Assistant Facilities Manager and became an Assistant AD-Assistant Compliance Officer in 2010. Gavigan then became the Head Compliance Officer in 2012. He live in Thiells, New York with his wife Maureen and their daughter Grace.

Kelly-Ann Di Giulio Light was named the Associate Director of Athletics in August of 2009 after serving as an Assistant Athletic Director since August of 2003. She has also served as the Director of Sports Information since 2003 where she is responsible for all athletic communications for the 17 varsity sports teams. She handles all statistical duties, press releases, as well as manages the athletic department website, www.chargerathletics.com.

In addition to her sport coverage duties, Di Giulio Light is also the department’s Senior Woman Administrator. As part of her Associate Athletic Director duties, she manages the budget for the athletic department, is a direct report for the eight female sport teams and a secondary report for the seven male sport teams.

Di Giulio Light began her sports information career while attending Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she served as the Assistant Sports Information Director. She assisted with men’s and women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. Her duties included public address announcer, statistician,

official scorer and post-game management.
A 2002 graduate of Ramapo College with a bachelor’s of arts degree in public communications, she spent two years working in the Sports Information office. She was a four-year member of the softball team, where she was a team captain for three years. Di Giulio Light also worked with the Assistant Athletic Director for Academic Services where she oversaw and monitored team study halls and tutoring. She was a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for three years.

Di Giulio Light is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors Association, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

Di Giulio Light currently serves on the CACC Marketing and Promotions Committee. She previously served as a member of the NCAA Division II Softball East Regional Advisory Committee, the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Hall of Fame Committee, CACC Scheduling Committee and the CACC Marketing Committee. She has also served on the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Hall of Fame Committee and the All-ECAC voting committee for men’s and women’s lacrosse. Previously, she served as Vice-Chair for the CACC Festival Committee.

In 2018, Di Giulio Light was appointed Chair of the CACC SID Council.
She has hosted numerous post season tournaments, including the 2004 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Men’s and Women’s soccer tournaments (first and second rounds), the 2004 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Women’s Volleyball Tournament, the first round of the 2006 ECAC Women’s Basketball Tournament and the 2007 CACC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament (semi-finals and championship games).

Di Giulio Light is also a 2010 graduate of Northeastern University where she earned a master of sports leadership degree. She and her husband, Adam, currently reside in Paramus, N.J., with their dog, Gracie.

Since 1990, Clinton has been the head coach of the Chargers with a 412-372 career record and a 273-191 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) record. He has led the program to three CACC Championships and four twenty-win seasons. He is a three-time recipient of the CACC Coach of the Year Award and is a past recipient of the All-Metropolitan Coach of the Year Award. Prior to Dominican’s membership in the NCAA, Clinton guided two teams to the NAIA National Tournaments.

During the 2012-2013 season, the Chargers made their first appearances in the NCAA East Regional Polls and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Top 25 rankings. DC was ranked as high as fifth in the NCAA East Regional Poll and ranked as high as 20th in the country in the NABC Top 25 rankings. DC was also the first men’s program in the East Region to reach the 20-win plateau this season and had a season-high 10-game winning streak during the year. The team also earned the program’s first NCAA East Region Tournament berth. Clinton was named the CACC Coach of the Year and the All-Metropolitan Coach of the Year.

In 1995-1996 season, Coach Clinton led his team to its best record since 1975-1976, finishing 22-9 overall and earned the program’s first NAIA nationally top 25 ranking. For his efforts he was named the CACC Coach of the Year and the All-Metropolitan Coach of the Year.

In addition to his coaching duties, Clinton is also Dominican’s Director of Athletics and director of the highly successful Dominican University Boys and Girls Basketball Camps and Clinics. In 1996, he was recognized as the CACC Administrator of the Year. Since coming to Dominican in 1989, Clinton has overseen an athletic department that has grown from five sports to 12 sports and made the transition from an NAIA school to an NCAA Division II member. During his tenure Dominican University sports have won numerous CACC Championships, 10 NAIA Championship appearances, 2 ECAC Championships, earned ten NCAA Regional Tournament appearances and one NCAA Championship appearance. In 2004 a local newspaper declared Dominican Athletic programs as one of the best in the tri-state area.

Clinton has also served on numerous NCAA committees, including serving as the NCAA East Region and National Chair for Division II Baseball and is currently the East Region Chair of the Men’s Basketball Committee.

Clinton spent his collegiate career at Union College (NY) where he scored over a thousand points and earned a BA in English in 1983. As a scholastic player, he was a star point guard at Albertus Magnus High School (NY) and is in his alma mater’s Hall of Fame.

Coach Clinton and his wife, Marybeth, have five children: Tara, Joey, Laura, Kelly and Erin. He and his family reside in Pearl River, NY.