Ed Servais

Ed Servais

• School University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• High School Aquinas High School (La Crosse)

Biographical Information

Ed Servais has been a college coach for 40 years, 30 of them as head coach. He is the uncle of Scott Servais and brother of scout Mark Servais.

Servais was All-Conference three times in college. He coached for Rib Lake High School in 1982-1983, going 24-11. He was an assistant coach at Saint Mary's College from 1984-1986. He then started the baseball program at Viterbo College in 1988, going 23-6 and guiding freshman Damian Miller. From 1989-1995, Ed was head coach at Saint Mary's, going 159-76-1. He was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1993; the 1990 team led NCAA Division III with a 2.34 ERA and the school almost made the 1993 Division III College World Series.

Servais then returned to the assistant role in 1996-1997 at Iowa State University. He was assistant at Creighton University from 1998-2003. He became head coach when Jack Dahm resigned. He won 35 games his first year and the school led the nation with a .982 fielding percentage, winning Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year honors. He improved to 48-17 in 2005, the second-highest win total in school history, and again was named Coach of the Year in the MVC.

Servais's club fell to 31-21 in 2006 then won 45 games in 2007, when Creighton won its first MVC Tournament ever. He again was named the conference's Coach of the Year. He was 37-21 in 2008. In 2009, Creighton fielded .984, best in the NCAA in the aluminum bat era. He was 227-124 after six seasons at the helm of Creighton. He announced his retirement effective after the 2025 season, and Mark Kingston was hired as associate head coach for 2025 with the plan to replace Servais in 2026.

Source: Creighton bio