Matt Blevins enters his second season on the Coppin State baseball coaching staff assisting Coach Watkins with the hitters.. Coach Blevins also leads the catchers while assisting with base runners.
In his first season, Coach Blevins helped the Eagles to their first MEAC North championship since 1996, while sporting a league-best 18-4 record in conference play. The 18 conference wins set a new standard for CSU baseball and its 21 overall wins tied the school record and represented a 10-game improvement from 2017.
In 2018, CSU’s team batting average improved by 23 points from the previous year, and the Eagles concluded the regular season hitting a league-leading .286. The aggressive Coppin State squad also finished 20th in the country in stolen bases per game.
Prior to Coppin State, Blevins worked as an assistant coach at Bluefield State College for five seasons, where he recruited the first player to sign an MLB contract in the program’s history. During his tenure, 17 players earned all-conference honors, and the team earned a cumulative GPA above 3.0 each year.
Blevins spent the summers of 2009 to 2012 as the head coach of the West Virginia Wild in the Carolina-Virginia Summer Collegiate League. During that time, his teams led the league in hitting twice and had three players drafted. Blevins also coached the 2011 CVSCL Player of the Year, and had 15 players named to the league’s all-star team.
Blevins graduated from Bluefield State with a Bachelor’s degree in Education, where he played third base and pitcher, after playing for WVU Tech as a freshman. Blevins went on to earn a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from West Virginia University in 2009, and a Juris Doctor from Charlotte School of Law in 2017.
The True, West Virginia native attended Summers County High School in Hinton, WV, where his mother (Kathy) teaches Health and serves as the Director of Athletics, and his father (Rick) teaches Social Studies and coaches baseball and girls basketball. The eldest of three siblings, his sisters, Sarah and Emily, both played college basketball.
