Head Coach
Jayme Block
Salisbury '97

jeblock@smcm.edu
240-895-4324

Jayme Block will enter his seventh season at the helm of the Seahawk men’s lacrosse program in 2008. In six seasons at St. Mary’s, Block has amassed a 58-39 overall record for a .598 winning percentage and mentored four players to five All-America citations. His 58 wins is the second most by any St. Mary’s men’s lacrosse coach.

Block currently ranks 23rd on the NCAA Division III list for active coaches with a .600 winning percentage based on a 66-44 career mark, which includes his 8-5 log during his one-year stint at Hamilton College in 2001.

This season, he starts the 2008 campaign with a pair of preseason All-America picks in Marc DiPasquale and AJ Armstrong while also returning last year’s Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Co-Rookie-of-the-Year, Ryan Alexander.

Block guided the Seahawks to a 12-6 record, including a 5-3 mark in league action, a year ago. St. Mary’s advanced to the CAC Championship game for the third time in Block’s tenure as well as for the second straight season. Five Seahawks earned All-CAC honors with Ryan Alexander earning CAC Co-Rookie-of-the-Year, making it three league rookies-of-the-year that Block has coached. The 12 wins marked the third time in program history that St. Mary’s has notched 12 or more wins in a season.

In 2006, the Seahawks posted a 13-4 record, including a 5-1 mark in the conference, and advanced to the CAC Championship for the second time under Block. With their 13 victories, St. Mary’s set the school record for the most wins in a season, surpassing the old mark of 12 established by the 2000 squad.

His team in 2005 finished with a 10-6 mark (4-2 CAC) and a conference tournament semifinal appearance, dropping a 10-7 decision to Goucher College.

With an 11-6 overall record and a 4-2 mark in the conference, St. Mary’s advanced to the 2004 CAC title game and Block was selected as the 2004 CAC Coach-of-the-Year by his peers. That year, he mentored his second rookie-of-the-year in Rich Barr. Even with the loss in the championship game, the Seahawks ended their season with an 8-2 record in their final ten games.

The Seahawks went 7-7 overall and 4-2 in the league in 2003, falling 13-12 in overtime to the University of Mary Washington in the CAC semifinals and Dave Mueller became Block’s first CAC Rookie-of-the-Year.

Despite a 4-2 record in the conference, St. Mary’s posted a 5-10 overall mark in 2002 - Block’s first season as the Seahawk head coach.

Block came to St. Mary’s after serving as the head coach at Hamilton in Clinton, New York during the 2000-2001 school year. He led the Continentals to an 8-5 finish in his first season as a head coach. The 8-5 mark was the program’s best record in nine years. Three of those eight wins were over nationally ranked Top 15 teams. Block also served as an assistant football coach while at Hamilton.

Prior to joining Hamilton, Block was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Salisbury University, from 1998 to 2000. He helped lead the Sea Gulls to three consecutive appearances in the national semifinals. In 1999, Salisbury won the national championship and finished as national runners-up to Middlebury College in 2000.

A 1997 graduate of Salisbury, Block was a four-year middie for the Sea Gulls. He was part of two national championships (1994 and 1995) while at Salisbury. Earning a bachelor’s in history in 1997, Block continued his education at Salisbury and completed a master’s degree in education in 1999.

Block is married to the former Megan Hopper, the head field hockey coach at St. Mary’s. The couple lives in Lexington Park, Maryland with their two daughters, Keeley and Sydney.

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