Ed Servais
Ed Servais (born c. 1958) is an American college baseball coach, currently the head coach at Creighton University, a member of the Big East Conference in NCAA Division I. He has held the position since July 2003, and has led the Bluejays to four appearances in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship|NCAA Tournament . Coaching career. Division III and NAIA. Servais' first college coaching position was with Saint Mary's Cardinals baseball|Saint Mary's in Winona, Minnesota , an NCAA Division III program where he was an assistant from 1984 to 1986. Following the 1986 season, he was hired by  National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA member Viterbo V-Hawks|Viterbo to start the school's baseball program. The team went in 1988, its first season. Following one season at Viterbo, Servais was rehired by Saint Mary's as head coach. He held the position for seven seasons and had an overall record of . Saint Mary's qualified for the 1993 Division III tournament, and were runner-up in the Midwest Regional. In both 1990 and 1993, Servais was named the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Division I assistant. Prior to the start of the 1996 season, Servais was  hired as an assistant coach at Iowa State Cyclones baseball|Iowa State of the Big 12 Conference , his first Division I (NCAA)|Division I coaching position. He served as an assistant to head coach Lyle Smith for two seasons From 1998–2003, Servais was an assistant and infield coach at Creighton Bluejays baseball|Creighton under head coach Jack Dahm. While he was an assistant, Creighton appeared in two NCAA Tournaments ( 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament#Columbus Super Regional|1999 and 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament#Austin Super Regional|2000 ). Creighton. Missouri Valley Conference. After a 20–37 season in 2003 NCAA Division I baseball season|2003 , Dahm resigned  as Creighton's head coach in late June. Servais was named interim head coach and later hired as the program's head coach on July 29. In Servais' first season in 2004 NCAA Division I baseball season|2004 , Creighton went and finished second in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), after finishing fifth the previous season. Servais was named the MVC Coach of the Year and became the first first-year coach to receive the award. In 2005 NCAA Division I baseball season|2005 , the team went 48–17 and won the MVC regular season championship. After losing the MVC Tournament championship game to  Wichita State Shockers baseball|Wichita State , Creighton received an at-large bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament|NCAA Tournament . In the tournament, the team went 2–2 and lost in the Lincoln Regional final to Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball|Nebraska . Servais was again named MVC Coach of the Year. Creighton finished fourth in the MVC in 2006 NCAA Division I baseball season|2006 , but qualified for a second NCAA Tournament under Servais in 2007 NCAA Division I baseball season|2007 . It received the MVC's automatic bid to the tournament by defeating Wichita State in the MVC championship game, 10–9 in 12 innings. As  the second seed in the 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament#Louisville Super Regional|Fayetteville Regional , it went 1–2. Servais was named the MVC Coach of the Year. The program's win totals declined from 2007–2010. After finishing second in the MVC in 2007, it finished third in 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season|2008 , fourth in 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season|2009 , and sixth in 2010 NCAA Division I baseball season|2010 . In 2011 NCAA Division I baseball season|2011 and 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season|2012 , however, Creighton appeared in consecutive NCAA Tournaments. In 2011, the team won both the MVC regular season  and tournament titles and was named the second seed in the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament#Nashville Super Regional|Corvallis Regional . It defeated Georgia Bulldogs baseball|Georgia , 2–1, in its opening game, but lost consecutive games to Oregon State Beavers baseball|Oregon State and Georgia and was eliminated. For the season, Servais received his fourth MVC Coach of the Year award. In 2012, the Bluejays finished last in the MVC, but won 2012 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament|the conference tournament to qualify for the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament|NCAA Tournament . As the fourth seed in the Los Angeles Regional, Creighton lost to  UCLA Bruins baseball|UCLA in the regional final. In 2013 NCAA Division I baseball season|2013 , Creighton's final season in the MVC, the team finished third in the conference. Big East Conference. Creighton joined the new Big East Conference ahead of the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season|2014 season. The Bluejays won the inaugural regular season title, then lost to Xavier Musketeers baseball|Xavier in the tournament championship game. Servais was named the Big East Conference Baseball Coach of the Year|Big East Coach of the Year . Personal life. Servais is the uncle of current Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais (b.1967), a former  Major League Baseball|major league catcher who played at Creighton in the late 1980s. Head coaching record. The following is a table of Servais' yearly records as an NAIA and NCAA head baseball coach. External links. 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