Archbishop Moeller Crusaders Athletics

2024 will be coach Blyberg’s fifth season at Moeller and his fourth as the head JV coach. Rick has coached high school baseball in the greater Cincinnati Area for the past 24 years including Lakota East, Purcell Marian, Archbishop Alter, La Salle, Middletown, and Clark Montessori where Rick was selected Miami Valley Conference coach of the year in 2010 after Clark won the school’s first ever conference title. Rick also coached college baseball for three years as the pitching coach/recruiting coordinator for Miami University-Hamilton which won the conference (ORCC) title in all three years. Rick also coached in the same capacity for the Hamilton Joes summer college team.

Rick has instructed camps for Doyle Baseball School in Ohio, Illinois, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida where Rick worked the 3 week Doyle Academy at the Detroit Tigers Facility in Lakeland, Fla. Rick was selected as the head coach of the All Ohio Mizuno High School All-Star game in 2012 and three times head coach of the Bob Ross Classic High School All-Star game held each year at the Dayton Dragons Fifth Third Field. Rick was also selected on two occasions to coach the SWOBCA Senior HS All-Star game at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio. Coach Blyberg was the field director for the Cincinnati Reds summer camps for three summers that were week-long baseball camps held at various high school and college facilities in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Coach Blyberg traveled twice to the Middle-East with a contingent of instructors, professional coaches, and minor league ball players to host a week-long baseball camp at the American School of Dubai and the American School of Qatar.

Rick retired after a 30 year career as an Ohio State Trooper and currently works for the Hamilton County Prosecutors Office as an operations coordinator. Rick and his wife Paulette live in Liberty Twp. They have 4 (Quadruplet) adult sons.