Kevin Blaskowski Position: Head Coach Experience: 5th Season

Kevin Blaskowski enters his fourth season as head coach of the Lady Buff softball program. Blaskowski was hired in December of 2004 to bring back the softball program to WTAMU's campus after a 24 year absence. In his first three years, Blaskowski has led the Lady Buffs to a 51-114 mark, however, in 2008 the Lady Buffs record of 25-33 surpassed the total number of victories from the two previous seasons combined (24).

Blaskowski also serves as the NCAA South Region Chairperson and is a member of the NCAA-II Softball Committee, in addition to also serving as the chairperson of the Lone Star Conference Softball Coaches Committee.

Blaskowski came to WTAMU from Lone Star Conference rival Eastern New Mexico University where he served as the head coach for one year.

Blaskowski's career record during 15 seasons as a collegiate head coach is 403-391 (.508) and his teams have qualified for the postseason play in 11 of his 16 seasons.

Prior to ENMU, Blaskowski coached at Southern Arkansas University for five years, where he started the SAU softball program and led them to the postseason in each of his five years. In 2003, SAU was the co-Champion of the West Division in the Gulf South Conference with a 31-19 overall record and a 19-4 conference mark.

Blaskowski's teams have also excelled academically including last season, when the Lady Buffs posted a 3.01 team GPA and had 10 players post a 3.0 GPA or higher, including two who posted perfect 4.0 marks.

In 2004, Eastern New Mexico finished 13th in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Team GPA Rankings. While at Southern Arkansas, Blaskowski's teams finished in the top ten in his last four years. SAU was ranked in the Top 10 of the team grade point average rankings in 1999-00 (5th), 2000-01 (7th), 2001-02 (8th), and 2002-03 (7th).

While at SAU, Blaskowski served as a member of the NCAA Division II South Region rating committee in addition to being named Gulf South Conference Co-Coach of the Year in 2000.

Blaskowski also has served as the head coach at Phillips University from 1996-1998. He started the program at Phillips which qualified for postseason play in each of its two seasons before the school closed in 1998.

Blaskowski was also the head coach at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., and Kansas Wesleyan University, in Salina, Kan.

He was chosen at the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) Coach of the Year at Kansas Wesleyan in 1993 and was selected as theNAIA District 10 Coach of the Year at Kansas Wesleyan University in 1994.

Blaskowski received a Bachelor of Science in education with a major in physical education from Valley City State University in North Dakota in 1986. He completed a Master of Science in education with an emphasis in health, physical education and recreation at Emporia State University in Kansas in 1989.

Blaskowski also serves as an instructor in the Sports and Exercise Science Department at West Texas A&M. In his career, Blaskowski has also been an instructor at Eastern New Mexico, Southern Arkansas and Kansas Wesleyan. He was the Sports Information Director at Phillips and Kansas Wesleyan, and also served as head coach of women's basketball at Kansas Wesleyan and Assistant Sports Information Director at Washburn.

Blaskowski and his beautiful wife, April, are the parents of two daughters, Kaelyn Rose and Kelsey Rhea.