Ed Blankmeyer Explained

Ed Blankmeyer
Birth Date:	15 December 1954
Alma Mater:	Seton Hall University
Player Years1:	1973–1976
Player Team1:	Seton Hall
Player Years2:	1976
Player Team2:	Pulaski Phillies
Player Positions:	Second baseman
Coach Years1:	1980–1995
Coach Team1:	Seton Hall (Asst.)
Coach Years2:	1996–2019
Coach Team2:	St. John's
Coach Years3:	2020–2021
Coach Team3:	Brooklyn Cyclones
Overall Record:	829–499–4 (college)
Tournament Record:	13–18
Championships:	6× Big East Regular season Championships (2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018) 5× Big East Tournament championships (1997, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2018) 11× NCAA Regional Appearances (1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018) 1 NCAA Super Regional Appearance (2012)
Awards:	4× ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) 8× Big East Coach of the Year (1996, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018)

Edward A. Blankmeyer (born December 15, 1954)^[1] is an American professional baseball coach and former second baseman. He was most recently the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York–Penn League.

Career

Blankmeyer played college baseball at Seton Hall University from 1973 to 1976. He served as an assistant coach at Seton Hall before serving as the head baseball coach at St. John's University from 1996 to 2019. Under Blankmeyer, St. John's won six Big East Conference Regular season Championships and five Big East Tournament championships. They appeared in ten NCAA Regionals and one NCAA Super Regional. Blankmeyer has received the Big East Conference's top coaching award eight times—six times as the head coach during the era in which the award was styled as "Coach of the Year" and presented solely to a head coach, and twice more under the award's current incarnation as the "Coaching Staff of the Year" award, presented to an entire staff. He has also received four ABCA Northeast Region Coach of the Year Awards.

On January 6, 2020, Blankmeyer stepped down from St. John's and became the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones. In 2022. he returned to the university as an adjunct associate professor.^[2]

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Blankmeyer's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edward Blankmeyer . Baseball-Reference.com . June 9, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140715001950/http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=blankm001edw . July 15, 2014 . dead . mdy .
2. Web site: Beloved Coach Returns to St. John’s University—Ready to Teach . St. John's University . 2 March 2024 . May 13, 2022.
3. Web site: 2012 St. John's Red Storm Baseball Record Book . St. John's Sports Information . June 9, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140821224425/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/stjo/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2011-12/misc_non_event/2012recordbook.pdf . August 21, 2014 . dead . mdy .
4. Web site: 2012 Big East Baseball Media Guide . BigEast.org . June 9, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120528193211/http://bigeast.org/Sports/Baseball/BaseballMediaGuide.aspx . May 28, 2012 . dead . mdy .
5. Web site: #13 Arizona at St. John's . June 10, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083010/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/ariz/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2011-12/box_score/stats_20120609aaa.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead . mdy .
6. Web site: 2013 Big East Conference Baseball Standings . D1Baseball.com . Jeremy Mills . May 27, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130519224055/http://www.d1baseball.com/conferences/standings_bigeast.htm . May 19, 2013 . dead . mdy .