Defensive line coach Patrick Blankenship is entering his second year with the sprint football team in 2017.
Blankenship is a 2000 graduate of Poolesville High School in Poolesville, Md., where he played both football and basketball. He attended Texas A&M University and upon graduating was commissioned into the United States Marine Corps. Serving tours of duty in Iraq, Okinawa, Japan, and Darwin, Australia. In 2014 he arrived in his current position as the Associate Professor of Naval Science, Marine Officer Instructor and Executive Officer of the Cornell University Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit.
Blankenship, his wife Kathy and their three children live in Ithaca.
Updated 4/24/16
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