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Blewitt
will be entering his third
year as Head Women's Soccer
Coach at Lenoir-Rhyne in
2009.
Blewitt has led the Bears to
a 20-16-4 mark in his two
seasons as mentor including
a 13-6-2 mark last year
which tied the school
single-season record for
wins in a season.
In November of 2006, Blewitt
became Lenoir-Rhyne's
first-ever Director of
Soccer and was the Head
Coach of both the men's and
women's soccer teams in 2007
and 2008.
Blewitt stepped down as
men's soccer coach after the
2008 season and finished his
four-year career with a
54-23-4 record as Lenoir-Rhyne's
Head Coach.
In his second season as
men's coach in
2006, Blewitt led the Bears
to their best year in school
history. Lenoir-Rhyne
finished the season with a
19-1-1 mark and a No. 5
national ranking in NCAA
Division II. L-R,
which set numerous school
records including goals and
points, also won the third
Food Lion SAC Tournament in
school history.
The Bears, the top-seeded
team in the Appalachian
Region last year, advanced
all the way to the regional
finals.
For his accomplishments,
Blewitt earned 2006 South
Atlantic Conference and
NSCAA/adidas Appalachian
Region Coach-Of-The-Year
honors.
Blewitt guided the team to
one of its best years in
school history (13-7-2) on its way to its
first-ever Top 25 National
Ranking in NCAA Division II
early in the season in his
first year in 2005.
Blewitt now carries a 32-8-3
mark as Bear mentor into the
2007 season.
Hired in November of 2004,
Blewitt came to the Hickory,
N.C., school after coaching the
past three seasons (2002-04)
at Lees-McRae
College
in Banner Elk, N.C.
Blewitt led the Bobcats to a
43-17-1 record over those
three years and captured in
2002 and 2003
Carolinas-Virginia Athletic
Conference Championships.
His 2002 squad finished the
year 17-4 and was ranked
21st in the final NCAA
Division II rankings, the
highest in school history.
Prior to Lees-McRae, Blewitt
coached five years (1997-01)
at
Methodist
College
in
Fayetteville,
N.C.
, and was an assistant at
Lock
Haven
University )
Pennsylvania ) from 1994 to 1996.
Including
his 35-54-1 mark while at
Methodist, Blewitt’s
career coaching record is
110-79-5 entering the 2006
campaign.
Blewitt, a 1994 graduate of
Lock Haven, has also been a
part of the
North Carolina
and Virginia Olympic
Development Program Coaching
staffs and is a member of
the National Soccer Coaches
of America Association and
the United States Soccer
Federation.
As a player for Lock Haven,
Blewitt was selected to the
All-Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference First
Team all four years and was
named league defensive MVP
as a senior in 2003.
Blewitt also led the squad
to two league tournament
titles (1990 and 1991) and
the captained the Bald
Eagles to the NCAA Division
II Elite Eight in 1992.
Blewitt earned his
master’s degree from Lock
Haven in 1996 as well and is
licensed by the NSCAA, USSF
and English Football
Association.
Blewitt
and his wife, Tami, are the
proud parents of one
daughter:
JoElle.
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