Andy Sawyers

Andy Sawyers
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Southeast Missouri State
Conference	Ohio Valley
Record	217–197
Biographical details
Born	May 24, 1975 (age 49); Willits, California, U.S.
Playing career
1994	Point Loma Nazarene
1996	Mendocino College
1997–1998	Nebraska
Position(s)	Catcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1999	Northwestern State (vol asst.)
2000	Nebraska (vol asst.)
2001–2002	Hutchinson Community College
2003–2007	Nebraska (asst.)
2008	Texas A&M (vol asst.)
2009–2010	Kansas State (asst.)
2011, 2014	Texas A&M (asst.)
2015–2016	Kansas State (asst.)
2017–present	Southeast Missouri State
Head coaching record
Overall	217–197 (NCAA) 87–27 (NJCAA)
Tournaments	Ohio Valley: 11–6; NCAA: 2–6
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	2 KJCCC regular season (2001–02); OVC regular season (2021); 3 OVC Tournament (2021–2022, 2024);

Andrew Sawyers is an American college baseball coach and former catcher. Sawyers is the head coach of the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks baseball team.

Playing career

Sawyers attended Willits High School in Willits, California. Sawyers played for the school's varsity baseball team. Sawyers then enrolled at Point Loma Nazarene University to play college baseball for the Point Loma 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]

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Hutchinson Community College (KJCCC) (2001–2002)
2001	Hutchinson Community College	40–16		1st	West–Sub Regionals
2002	Hutchinson Community College	47–11		1st	Region IV Runners–Up
Hutchinson Community College:		87–27
Southeast Missouri State (Ohio Valley Conference) (2017–present)
2017	Southeast Missouri State	29–26	16–14	5th	Ohio Valley tournament
2018	Southeast Missouri State	27–30	20–10	2nd	Ohio Valley tournament
2019	Southeast Missouri State	23–32	10–20	10th
2020	Southeast Missouri State	9–8	2–1		Season canceled due to COVID-19
2021	Southeast Missouri State	30–22	17–10	1st	NCAA Regional
2022	Southeast Missouri State	37–22	16–8	2nd	NCAA Regional
2023	Southeast Missouri State	26–30	14–10	T-3rd	Ohio Valley tournament
2024	Southeast Missouri State	36–27	18–9	2nd	NCAA Regional
Southeast Missouri State:		217–197	113–82
Total:		217–197
National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion

^ Erin Unerstall (August 2, 2016). "Sawyers introduced as next Southeast Missouri State baseball coach". www.semissourian.com. Southeast Missourian. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
^ "Andy Sawyers". www.12thman.com. Texas A&M University. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
^ "Andy Sawyers Named Assistant Baseball Coach". www.kstatesports.com. K-State Athletics. June 27, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "Andy Sawyers Appointed Head Baseball Coach". www.gosoutheast.com. Southeast Missouri State University Athletics. July 29, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.