Coach Kwame Dixon enters his first season on the NCCU coaching staff as wide receivers coach.
Dixon joins the Eagles after spending the past eight seasons as a head football coach on the high school level.
For the past three seasons (2005-07), Dixon served as head coach at West Johnston High School in Benson, N.C. In 2007, he led the Wildcats to a single-season school record seven victories (7-5), the school's first-ever state playoff appearance and the program's highest conference finish at second place in the Greater Neuse Conference.
During the 2000-04 seasons, Dixon was head coach at Cambridge (Mass.) High School, where he posted the highest winning percentage in school history, recorded the most wins in a single season and was voted as 2003 Massachusetts Coach of the Year.
On the collegiate level, Dixon has worked as wide receivers coach at the University of Rhode Island (1999), and held terms as assistant head coach/quarterbacks coach and running backs coach/recruiting coordinator at Northern Arizona University (1995-98).
He has also performed NFL summer internships with the Green Bay Packers (1998) and Carolina Panthers (1996).
Dixon is a 1987 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he played football and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration.
