Blum has amassed a 194-70 record over the past five years, including a 76-26 mark in the PSAC East. He has led KU to the 2005 and 2006 PSAC crowns, the 2007 North Atlantic Regional title, and five-straight appearances in the NCAA regional tournament. The 194 wins are the most in any five-year span in program history. In addition, seven of his players have gone on to play professional baseball.

Last year, Blum guided KU to a school-record 49 wins. The Golden Bears spent the week of April 30 as the No. 1-ranked team in Division II, a first for a KU sports team and for a ball club from the North Atlantic Region. The Bears won the PSAC East regular-season title and the NCAA Division II North Atlantic Regional, finishing seventh in the nation. KU was 49-7 overall, 19-1 in the PSAC East. Blum was the PSAC East and Regional Coach of the Year, and his players earned numerous all-conference, all-region and All-America honors.

In 2006, KU set a then-school record with a 44-14 overall, 15-5 PSAC East mark. KU won the PSAC title for the progam’s first-ever back-to-back conference crowns. He was named PSAC East Coach of the Year. In 2005, Kutztown won the PSAC Championship, and finished 39-18 overall, 10-8 in the PSAC East. In 2004, Blum’s team was 25-15, including a 17-7 mark in the Eastern Division. The Golden Bears finished as the PSAC runners-up. Blum garnered his first PSAC East and Regional Coach of the Year awards. KU won the North Atlantic Regional tournament. In his first season, Blum guided KU to a 25-15 overall record and 17-7 record in the PSAC East. KU finished third at regionals.

Prior to taking over as head coach, Blum served as assistant coach for eight seasons.

Kutztown has won PSAC Eastern Division titles in 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2007; PSAC Championships in 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2006; won the North Atlantic Regional tournament in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007. The Golden Bears have won 444 games in the last 13 years.

In college, Blum played at Elizabethtown College, winning multiple division titles, a MAC Championship, and qualifying for two NCAA Division III regional tournaments. He graduated in 1993 with a bachelor of science degree in communications.

Blum, 35, began his coaching career at Muhlenberg High School, his alma mater. He was an assistant for four years. Prior to taking over at Kutztown, Blum had been head coach of the Berkshire Red Sox of the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League. Improving from a 13-17 record its first season, Blum guided his team to the championship game in 2002, finishing with a record of 25-12.