Ed Servais

Ed Servais
Sport(s) Baseball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Creighton
Conference Big East
Record 389-230
Biographical details
Alma mater Wisconsin–La Crosse '81
Playing career
1978-1981 UW–La Crosse Eagles
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1984-1986
1988
1989-1995
1996-1997
1998-2003
2004-present		 Saint Mary's (MN) (asst.)
Viterbo
Saint Mary's (MN)
Iowa State (asst.)
Creighton (asst.)
Creighton
Head coaching record
Overall 571-312-1
Tournaments NCAA: 6-8
Big East: 2-1
MVC: 25-12
Accomplishments and honors

Awards

MIAC Coach of the Year (1990, 1993)
MVC Coach of the Year (2004, 2005, 2007, 2011)
Big East Coach of the Year (2014)

Ed Servais is an American college baseball coach, currently the head coach of the NCAA Division I Creighton Bluejays. Servais has held the position since the start of the 2004 season. Under him, Creighton has appeared in four NCAA Tournaments.

Coaching career

Division III and NAIA

Servais's first college coaching position was with Division III Saint Mary's (MN), where he served as an assistant from 1984-1986. Following the 1986 season, he was hired by NAIA member Viterbo to start the school's baseball program. The team went 23-6 in 1988, its first season.[1]

Following one season at Viterbo, Servais was rehired by Saint Mary's to serve as the program's head coach. He held the position for seven seasons (1989-1995) and had an overall record of 159-76-1. Saint Mary's qualified for the 1993 NCAA Division III Tournament, where it finished as the runner-up in the Midwest Regional. In both 1990 and 1993, Servais was named the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.[1][2]

Division I assistant

Prior to the start of the 1996 season, Servais was hired as an Iowa State assistant coach, his first Division I coaching position. He served as an assistant to head coach Lyle Smith for two seasons (1996-1997).[1][3]

From 1998-2003, Servais was an assistant and infield coach at Creighton under head coach Jack Dahm. While he was an assistant, Creighton appeared in two NCAA Tournaments (1999 and 2000).[1][4]

Creighton

Missouri Valley Conference

After a 20-37 season in 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, 2003.[1][5]

In 2004, Servais's first season, Creighton went 35-24 and finished second in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC), after having gone 20-35 and finishing 5th in the previous season. Servais was named the MVC Coach of the Year and became the first first-year coach to receive the award.[1] In 2005, the team went 48-17 and won the MVC regular season championship.[6] After losing the MVC Tournament championship game to Wichita State, Creighton received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.[7] In the tournament, the team went 2-2 and lost in the Lincoln Regional final to Nebraska.[8][9] Servais was again named MVC Coach of the Year.[1]

Creighton finished fourth in the MVC in 2006, but qualified for a second NCAA Tournament under Servais in 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 Fayetteville Regional, it went 1-2.[6][7][8] Servais was named the MVC Coach of the Year.[1]

The program's win totals declined from 2007-2010. After finishing second in the MVC in 2007, it finished third in 2008, fourth in 2009, and sixth in 2010.[7] In 2011 and 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 Corvallis Regional. It defeated Georgia, 2-1, in its opening game, but lost consecutive games to Oregon State and Georgia and was eliminated. For the season, Servais received his fourth MVC Coach of the Year award.[6] In 2012, the Bluejays finished last in the MVC, but won the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.[10] As the fourth seed in the Los Angeles Regional, Creighton lost to UCLA in the regional final.[11]

In 2013, Creighton's final season in the MVC, the team finished third in the conference.[12]

Big East Conference

Creighton joined the new Big East Conference ahead of the 2014 season. The Bluejays won the inaugural regular season title, then lost to Xavier in the tournament championship game.[13][14] Servais was named the Big East Coach of the Year.[15]

Head coaching records

The following is a table of Servais's yearly records as an NAIA and NCAA head baseball coach.[1][2][7][12]

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Viterbo V-Hawks (Midwest Collegiate Conference (NAIA)) (1988–1988)
1988 Viterbo 23-6 11-1
Viterbo: 23-6 11-1
Saint Mary's Cardinals (Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NCAA DIII)) (1989–1995)
1989 Saint Mary's 13-22-1 9-11
1990 Saint Mary's 28-8 14-6 1st
1991 Saint Mary's 20-10 14-6
1992 Saint Mary's 28-7 11-7
1993 Saint Mary's 26-7 16-3 1st NCAA Regional
1994 Saint Mary's 20-11 14-6
1995 Saint Mary's 24-11 12-8
Saint Mary's: 159-76-1 90-47
Creighton Bluejays (Missouri Valley Conference (NCAA DI)) (2004–2013)
2004 Creighton 35-24 22-9 2nd MVC Tournament
2005 Creighton 48-17 17-7 1st NCAA Regional
2006 Creighton 31-21 13-11 4th MVC Tournament
2007 Creighton 45-16 19-5 2nd NCAA Regional
2008 Creighton 37-21 16-8 3rd MVC Tournament
2009 Creighton 31-25 14-9 4th MVC Tournament
2010 Creighton 27-25 9-12 6th MVC Tournament[lower-alpha 1]
2011 Creighton 45-16 15-6 1st NCAA Regional
2012 Creighton 28-30 6-14 8th NCAA Regional
2013 Creighton 30-18 13-8 3rd MVC Tournament[lower-alpha 1]
Creighton Bluejays (Big East Conference (NCAA DI)) (2014–present)
2014 Creighton 32-17 14-4 1st Big East Tournament
Creighton: 389-230 158-93
Total: 571-312-1

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Personal

Servais is the uncle of former Major League Baseball player Scott Servais.[16]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 In this season, all members of the Missouri Valley Conference qualified for its postseason tournament.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Head Coach Ed Servais". CreightonBaseballCamps.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Saint Mary's Cardinals Baseball -- Year-by-Year Results". SaintMarysSports.com. Saint Mary's Sports Information. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Big 12 Baseball". NewsOK.com. August 18, 1996. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ Reinking, Tommy (April 23, 2013). "Dahm's Iowa Baseball Team Set to Face His Alma Mater Creighton". DailyIowan.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Hokies Going to ACC". SPTimes.com. Associated Press. June 28, 2003. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Ed Servais". GoCreighton.com. Creighton Sports Information. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "2013 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Record Book". MVC.org. Missouri Valley Conference. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Record Book". NCAA. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ "General Session Tickets for Husker Super Regional Are Gone". June 7, 2005. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  10. ↑ Olson, Eric (May 30, 2012). "Losing Record Doesn't Keep Creighton Out of NCAAs". Associated Press. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  11. ↑ Fitt, Aaron (June 4, 2012). "UCLA Eliminates "First-Class" Creighton". BaseballAmerica.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "2013 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Jeremy and Cynthia Mills. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  13. ↑ "2014 Big East Conference Baseball Standings". D1Baseball.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  14. ↑ Pivovar, Steven (April 18, 2013). "Bluejays Hope to Set Big East Standard". Omaha.com. Omaha World-Herald. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  15. ↑ Matheny, Ryan (May 19, 2014). "Fowler, Servais Pick Up Big East Awards". KMALand.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  16. ↑ Entringer, Matt (February 8, 2011). "Servais Makes Impact On and Off the Field". Creightonian.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2013.