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Andrew currently serves as Meet Director and Track Alumni Relations Coordinator
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (since 2004). He has twenty years of
experience coaching distance and middle distance runners at the NCAA Division I Level
(SEC, ACC, Conference USA, & Big South), as well as coaching elite athletes at the
USA Championships, the World Championships, and the Olympics.
During his career Andrew has coached at the University of Georgia (1986-1989), University of
North Carolina (1989-1994), Tulane University (1994-1996), University of South Carolina (1996-2001),
and 2001-2004 Coastal Carolina University. His accolades include being named coach-of-the-year in the
Southeast Region, the Big South and South Carolina. During his career he has coached more than a dozen
All-Americans, more than 50 NCAA qualifiers, and 3 Olympian (including an Olympic Silver Medalist).
The elite athletes Andrew has worked with range from a 1:59 800m runner to a 2:35 Marathoner on the
women’s side, and from a 1:44 800m runner to a 28:30 10K runner in the case of the men. He is currently
working with the NC age 45-49 State Record holder in the women’s marathon (3:01) as well as a select group
of world class middle distance runners. In 1996 Andrew Directed the Distance Practice Track at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
Coach Andrew is very involved in USATF coaching education. He has directed USATF Level I coaching schools
that have helped educate over 500 coaches in the past 9 years. In 2006 Andrew coordinated the elite
athletes for the inaugural OBX marathon a race which produced 6 state records and 2 Olympic Trials
Qualifying performances. Perhaps Andrew’s proudest moment as a coach was serving as the Distance Coach
for Men for the USA at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
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