Ed Servais

Ed Servais (born c. 1958) is a retired American college baseball coach who was most recently the head coach at Creighton University, a member of the Big East Conference in NCAA Division I. He held the position from July 2003 until June 2025, and led the Bluejays to four appearances in the NCAA tournament.

Coaching career

Division III and NAIA Servais' first college coaching position was with 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 NAIA member 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 of the Big 12 Conference, his first 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 under head coach Jack Dahm. While he was an assistant, Creighton appeared in two NCAA tournaments (1999 and 2000).

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 .

In Servais' first season in 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. After losing the MVC Tournament championship game to Wichita State, Creighton received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Servais was again named MVC Coach of the Year. As the fourth seed in the Los Angeles Regional, Creighton lost to UCLA in the regional final.

In 2013, Creighton's final season in the MVC, the team finished third in the conference. Servais was named the Big East Coach of the Year. In May 2024, Servais announced that 2025 would be his final season as coach of the Bluejays; in June 2024, former University of South Carolina baseball coach Mark Kingston was hired as associate head coach/head coach in waiting.

Personal life Servais is the uncle of former Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais (b.1967), a former 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.