SUNY Cortland Athletics

Recruiting Areas: NYS Section 11, New England

Tom Blumenauer (pronounced BLOOM-en-ow-er) completed his first season as the football head coach at SUNY Cortland in 2025 after taking over the program in February 2025.

He guided Cortland to an 8-3 (.727) overall record in 2025, including a 7-0 mark in Empire 8 conference play to lead the Red Dragons to their fifth consecutive outright conference title. Cortland earned a berth into the NCAA Div. III playoffs, ending the year tied for 33rd place nationally after falling at Springfield in the first round of the national tournament. Blumenauer and his assistants were also honored as the Empire 8 Coaching Staff of the Year, while three different Red Dragons garnered All-America certificates, four players were selected as D3football.com All-Region 2 honorees, and 20 players earned a total of 21 all-conference awards.  

Blumenauer served as head coach at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., from 2022-24. During those three seasons, he led the Diplomats to a combined 21-11 record, including an 11-8 record in the Centennial Conference. F&M won postseason bowl games versus Delaware Valley in 2024, to cap a 7-4 season, and King's (Pa.) in 2023, to finish an 8-3 campaign. The 2024 season also featured a tight 13-6 loss at eventual national semifinalist Johns Hopkins.

In 2024, F&M ranked first in the Centennial Conference in scoring defense (13.1 points per game), passing yards allowed per game (164.8) and rushing yards allowed per game (62.7), along with time of possession (34:37 per game; second nationally) and offensive third down conversion percentage (49.3 percent; 21st nationally). The team also ranked second in the conference in passing yards per game (261.7). Blumenauer's F&M teams earned a total of 25 Centennial Conference all-league honors, including 11 in 2024, in addition to 62 student-athletes named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
 
Prior to F&M, "Coach Blu" served as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Williams College (Mass.) for six years. He was the Ephs' offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2021 and the program's run game coordinator and offensive line coach from 2016-20. Williams made a steady climb up the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) standings during his tenure, culminating in the program's first 9-0 season and a league title in 2021. That season, Williams averaged more than 34 points per game and ranked fifth nationally in Division III in red zone scoring percentage (.895), seventh in passing yards per completion (17.8) and ninth in passing efficiency (170.4 rating).
 
Blumenauer's other coaching positions include serving as offensive coordinator at Bowdoin College (Maine) in 2015 and at Endicott College (Mass.) in 2014. He got his start in collegiate coaching as recruiting coordinator, quarterbacks coach and wide receivers coach four seasons at St. Lawrence University from 2010-13. The Saints were Liberty League champs in his first season in Canton.
 
After playing from 2003-04 at Division I Connecticut, Blumenauer transferred to Ithaca College and played outside linebacker and free safety for the Bombers for two seasons. He registered 55 tackles, five pass breakups, three fumble recoveries and two interceptions, one returned 85 yards for a touchdown, in 2005, and the following season he recorded 54 tackles, including three sacks among his 13 total tackles for loss. Blumenauer was a two-time All-Empire 8 selection and was named to the 2006 Football Gazette All-East Region team.
 
Blumenauer earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Ithaca in 2007 and a master's degree in educational leadership from St. Lawrence in 2012. The Brentwood, N.Y., native graduated from Brentwood High School in 2003. He earned football all-county honors twice and was a three-year standout wrestler. He's in the Brentwood Hall of Fame for both sports.

Tom and his wife, Eileen, have three daughters, Teagan, Riley and Quinn. Eileen is a 2009 SUNY Geneseo alumna and was an All-SUNYAC soccer player for the Knights as a junior in addition to playing professionally for the Rochester Ravens in the USL W-League from 2010-11.

(updated 1/7/2026)