Coming out of Dracut High, Peter Nickerson received "a few letters" from coaches at Division 3 schools. When Ken Harring was coach at St. Anselm, he briefly spoke to Nickerson about pitching there. Whenever Hank Golec attended a UMass Lowell game at LeLacheur Park while Nickerson was in high school, he would see Nickerson there watching. "I could tell that's where he really wanted to play," says Golec. As a freshman in 2004, Nickerson pitched eight games in relief, without registering a decision. The following season, after Harring became UMass Lowell's head coach, Nickerson was penciled into the starting rotation. What has happened since is well-documented in the UMass Lowell record book. The 6-foot-1, 202-pound Nickerson, who at Dracut High also wrestled (at 135 pounds as a senior) and played football, comes from an active family. He has two brothers at Greater Lowell Tech -- Tim, a senior baseball player, and Dan Frederick, a sophomore wrestler. His sister Catherine, now a freshman at UMass Lowell, ran track and played soccer at Dracut High.