[5] Stankiewicz also served as the minor league field coordinator for the Seattle Mariners from 2009 to 2012[6] before taking the head coaching job at Grand Canyon.

[7] In an 11-year stint as the head coach at Grand Canyon, he inherited an NCAA Division II program and guided it through a transition to Division I where it stood as one of the nation's top mid-major programs[8] with five Western Athletic Conference regular-season championships[9] and multiple appearances in the nation's top-25 rankings.

[11] He is an alumnus of Pepperdine University, where he was a standout for the Waves baseball program and graduated in 1986 with a degree in sociology.

He ranks in the top 10 in several Pepperdine career batting categories, and is third on the school's all-time list in stolen bases (101).

[13] Stankiewicz also played football where he was a Los Angeles Times First Team All-Southeast wide receiver as a senior in 1981, catching 53 passes and returning four kicks for touchdowns.

[17] Stankiewicz remains in Pepperdine's career top 10 for at bats with 755, runs with 172, walks drawn with 121, stolen bases with 101 and stolen-base percentage at .828.

Alongside his brother, Alan, Stankiewicz played collegiate summer ball in 1985 for the North Pole Nicks under legendary coach Mike Gillespie.

Stankiewicz played for four different ballclubs during his career: the New York Yankees (1992–1993), Houston Astros (1994–1995), Montreal Expos (1996–1997), and Arizona Diamondbacks (1998).

Under his guidance, ASU led the nation in fielding percentage in 2007, and he coached 29 players who were drafted, including three first rounders.

[21] In his first season, he guided the Antelopes to a 27–23 overall record as the squad finished eighth in the final West Region poll.

Stankiewicz also had been selected as an assistant coach for USA Baseball's Collegiate National Team during the summer of 2012.

The squad traveled to Cuba and The Netherlands to compete in Honkbal-Haarlem Baseball Week, where they won the bronze medal.

In just his second season at Grand Canyon, Stankiewicz had the program winning 40 games and advancing to the NCAA Division II Baseball Championship.

[22] Stankiewicz quickly built Grand Canyon into one of the WAC's top two programs, winning regular-season championships in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

The Trojans finished fourth in the Pac-12 standings by winning seven of their 10 conference series but were left out of the NCAA tournament[29] despite being projected as safely in by many publications.