Andy Sawyers | |
Current Title: | Head coach |
Current Team: | Southeast Missouri State |
Current Conference: | Ohio Valley |
Current Record: | 217–197 |
Birth Date: | 24 May 1975 |
Birth Place: | Willits, California, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1994 |
Player Team1: | Point Loma Nazarene |
Player Years2: | 1996 |
Player Team2: | Mendocino College |
Player Years3: | 1997–1998 |
Player Team3: | Nebraska |
Player Positions: | Catcher |
Coach Years1: | 1999 |
Coach Team1: | Northwestern State (vol asst.) |
Coach Years2: | 2000 |
Coach Team2: | Nebraska (vol asst.) |
Coach Years3: | 2001–2002 |
Coach Team3: | Hutchinson Community College |
Coach Years4: | 2003–2007 |
Coach Team4: | Nebraska (asst.) |
Coach Years5: | 2008 |
Coach Team5: | Texas A&M (vol asst.) |
Coach Years6: | 2009–2010 |
Coach Team6: | Kansas State (asst.) |
Coach Years7: | 2011, 2014 |
Coach Team7: | Texas A&M (asst.) |
Coach Years8: | 2015–2016 |
Coach Team8: | Kansas State (asst.) |
Coach Years9: | 2017–present |
Coach Team9: | Southeast Missouri State |
Overall Record: | 217–197 (NCAA) 87–27 (NJCAA) |
Tournament Record: | Ohio Valley: 11–6 NCAA: 2–6 |
Championships: |
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Andrew Sawyers is an American college baseball coach and former catcher. Sawyers is the head coach of the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball team.
Sawyers attended Willits High School in Willits, California. Sawyers played for the school's varsity baseball team. Sawyers then enrolled at the Point Loma Nazarene University, to play college baseball for the Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions baseball team.
As a freshman at Point Loma Nazarene University in 1994, Sawyers didn't appear in a single game.
After taking a year off, Sawyers returned to baseball at Mendocino College.
In the 1997 season as a junior, Sawyers transferred to play baseball for Nebraska and hit .268, hit 5 home runs, slugged .395 and had 38 RBIs.
As a senior in 1998, Sawyers had a .163 batting average, a .258 on OBP and appeared in 22 games.
Sawyers earned his first ever head coaching job at Hutchinson Community College.[1]
Sawyers served as an assistant at Texas A&M during the 2008 season while earning his master's degree.[2]
On June 27, 2008, Sawyers was named an assistant coach for the Kansas State Wildcats baseball.[3]
On July 29, 2016, Sawyers was named the head coach at Southeast Missouri State University.[4]