Ed Blankmeyer (born December 15, 1954) is an American

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coach and former second baseman. He is the manager of the

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of the

New York–Penn League The New York–Penn League (NYPL) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated in the northeastern United States from 1939 to 2020. Classified as a Class A Short Season league, its season started in June, after major-league teams signed th ...

Career

Blankmeyer played

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Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan un ...

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 St John's University may refer to: *St. John's University (New York City) **St. John's University School of Law **St. John's University (Italy) - Overseas Campus *College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, St. Joseph, Minnesota and Col ...

from 1996 to 2019. Under Blankmeyer, St. John's won six

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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

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Blankmeyer's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Blankmeyer, Ed 1954 births Living people Pulaski Phillies players Seton Hall Pirates baseball coaches Seton Hall Pirates baseball players St. John's Red Storm baseball coaches Minor league baseball managers