John Andrews is in his 12th year this season as head coach of the IUPUI men’s golf team and tenth overall with the women’s program. He took over the reigns of the IUPUI program beginning in the spring season of 1998. He helped the team through its transition to a Division I in the 1998-99 season and boasts an 846-968 career mark on the men’s side. As the only coach in the women’s team’s history, he has accrued a 321-739-1 mark.
A three-time league Coach of the Year, Andrews guided the 2002 and 2005 men’s teams to conference titles and NCAA Tournament berths. The 2004-05 Andrews-led team is the most successful to date. That squad set a school record for total wins with 108 and an amazing .706 winning percentage. Twenty three of the team’s 44 losses came in the NCAA Regional. Andrews was named Mid-Continent Conference Coach of the Year for the second occasion. He also accomplished both feats in the 2001-02 season.
During the 2000-01 season, Andrews’ squad had a .643 winning percentage (92-49-2), while 2003-04 team held the previous school record of 95 wins.
All total, IUPUI teams have earned 15 tournament titles under Andrews’ watch, five of which came during the 2004-05 season. Thirteen of his men’s student-athletes have earned All-Conference recognitions, including seven first teamers and one league Player of the Year. He’s also coached an Academic All-American (Justin Wenger) and the only Hall of Famer (Adam Darrow) in program history.
Andrews is starting his tenth season as head coach of the IUPUI women’s golf team. The Jaguars have made steady strides under Andrews, including setting a new school record for team stroke average in 2009-10 and notching the second-best winning percentage in school history at .422. Freshman Jordan Woods posted the lowest-ever stroke average by an IUPUI player, become the first to finish a season under an 80 average in the process.
The program gained its first-ever tournament win in the spring of 2004 when it captured the Centenary Ladies Invitational crown. The second tourney win came in 2007 when the Jaguars won the Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport Colonial Golf Classic.
Andrews has coached eight all-conference performers, including three first teamers.
