Arkansas State Baseball
Coaching Staff

Chris Cook
Assistant Coach

Now entering his fifth season at Arkansas State and thirteenth season as an assistant coach, Chris Cook has taken on the responsibilities of serving as the Red Wolves' recruiting coordinator, in addition to coaching hitters and infielders.

Before coaching at Lander, Cook held coaching positions at Winthrop University, Collin County (Texas) Community College and at his alma mater, Rockford College. 

In his career, Cook has coached over 60 players who have gone on to play professional baseball, including the first five Lander players to ever play professional baseball and another five who have made it to the Major League level.Cook came to Arkansas State after serving as an assistant for one season at Austin Peay State.  Prior to his experience at Austin Peay, Cook spent three seasons as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Lander University in Greenwood, S.C., where he led the Bearcats to one of the top team ERA's in Division II baseball. Cook was part of a coaching staff that led Lander to a spot in the NCAA Division II National Poll each season, including a ranking of seventh nationally in 2005.

Cook earned his Business Administration and Marketing degree at Rockford College. He is married to the former Wendy Mazan, who works as the Executive Director of Better Life Counseling Center in Jonesboro.  They have a daughter, Julianna Rosemarie, born March 21, 2009.

Tighe Dickinson
Assistant Coach

Tighe Dickinson is in his second year as an assistant coach with the Red Wolves program and will serve as the pitching coach for A-State this season.
 
Dickinson brings 10 years of coaching experience to the Red Wolves including four years at the Division I level working as a pitching coach at the University of Washington. During his career, Dickinson has worked with numerous Major League Baseball prospects including 2010 MLB All-Stars Tim Lincecum, John Lester and Evan Meek.
 
Overall, Dickinson coached 13 drafted pitchers including a first and second round pick while at Washington. Dickinson served as an assistant coach at Montesano High School in 2009-10 where he led the squad to a 21-4 first-place league finish and an appearance in the state playoffs.
 
Prior to his appointment at Washington, Dickinson served as head coach at Edmonds Community College where he led the squad to a third-place finish in the NWAACC Tournament and a 75-16 record as head coach, including a 40-8 conference mark.

Dickinson also served as head coach at Skyline High School in Issaquah in 2003, guiding the team to a 14-7 overall mark and a 13-5 conference record. He also served as pitching coach at Edmonds CC in 2000 and 2001.
 
Aside from his work at Edmonds and Skyline, Dickinson has also served as pitching coach at Taylor Baseball, a top youth summer program, since 2001. Taylor took third place in the national AAU tournament in 2001 and in 2002, finished second at the USA Baseball Federation national tournament. During the 2005 summer season, Taylor finished second at the USABF World Series and completed the season with a 59-7-1 record.

A native of Aberdeen, Wash., Dickinson graduated from Montesano High in 1994. After one year at Green River CC, he played three seasons of college baseball as a pitcher at Alabama-Birmingham, lettering in 1996, 1997 and 1998. In 1999, he earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from UAB. 

Jason Laws

Assistant Coach

Volunteer assistant coach Jason Laws is in his first season with the Red Wolves baseball program.

Laws comes to ASU after serving as an assistant coach at South Dakota State University last season. Jason will assist with the offense and work with the catching core in addition to being the Camp Coordinator.


While serving as the hitting coach in 2011, South Dakota State ranked 1st in the Summit League in batting average, runs, hits, doubles, triples, RBIs, slugging percentage and on base percentage.

A native of San Diego, Calif., Laws was a catcher collegiately at Palomar Junior College in San Marcos, Calif., before transferring to Murray State (Ky.). In 2009, Laws was a first-team all-Ohio Valley Conference selection, hitting .373 with 10 doubles, three triples, three home runs and 39 runs batted in. During his senior season, in 2010, he batted .314 with 14 doubles, four home runs and 41 runs scored.

Laws earned a degree in construction at Murray State and is pursuing a master's degree in sports pedagogy at SDSU.