Eighth Year as Head Coach
Highest NCAA DI ranking = 16th
2 NCAA South Region Head Coach of the Year Awards
15 ASUN Conference Coach of the Year Awards
15 ASUN Conference Team Championships
17 All-Americans
71 NCAA qualifiers
44 ASUN Conference Records
243 Conference Champions
604 All-Conference Performances
55 Academic All-Conference Awards
3 Athletic Department Community Service Awards
Andy Eggerth, the 15 time Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year and two time USTFCCCA South Region Head Coach of the Year, enters his eighth season as the Director of Track and Field and Cross Country at Kennesaw State University.
During his first seven years at Kennesaw State, Eggerth has had tremendous success with both the cross country and track and field programs. He has coached 17 All-Americans since coming to KSU, and his teams have won 14 Atlantic Sun Conference Track and Field Championships and one Cross Country title.
This past season, the Owls rose up again winning both the men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor ASUN Championships; the sixth consecutive indoor title for the men.
Under Eggerth’s tutelage, the combined men and women’s programs have broken 44 ASUN Conference records. When conference records are going down so are school records. With Eggerth coaching the squad, the men have broken 13 of 17 indoor school records and 18 of 21 outdoor records. The women have broken all 17 indoor records as well as breaking 19 of 21 outdoor school records.
Eggerth has the student-athletes under a tough regimen throughout the season, always getting results at championship time. His women have produced 84 individual ASUN champions, with the men raking in 151 total individual champions. Along with winning championships, his teams have been represented at the NCAA Championships every year he has been at Kennesaw State. The Owls now aspire beyond the NCAA with multiple athletes competing at the US Championships, Olympic Trials, and International competition.
In 2017, Jordan Gray put together the strongest season by a female in KSU track history under Eggerth. She won the pentathlon with a new school and conference record of 4019 points at ASUN Indoor Championships and was named ASUN Most Valuable Performer honors and ASUN Most Outstanding Field Athlete Honors. Gray went on to destroy the ASUN outdoor Heptathlon record winning all 7 events and qualifying for the NCAA Championship, ranked 14th in the Nation. At NCAA’s she finished seventh scoring 5621 points. She became the first Owl to earn First Team All-America Honors at the NCAA Championships with her finish in the heptathlon. Continuing into the summer, Jordan took 13th in the heptathlon at the US Championships scoring and closed her season finishing fifth at the IAAF Capital Cup Combined Events Challenge.
In 2016, Bilal Abdullah and Andre Dorsey shined under Eggerth with both athletes completing their seasons at the U.S. Olympic Trials. That indoor season, Abdullah was named ASUN Most Outstanding Performer after collecting two first and two second place finishes. He would earn All-American Honors for finishing sixth in the heptathlon at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships. He won the decathlon at the 2016 ASUN Outdoor Championships scoring a conference championship record of 7286 points. He competed in the NCAA Championship and the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in the long jump. In spring 2016, Dorsey returned from an injury that sidelined him a season ago and set outdoor school records in the long jump, triple jump, and high jump. He ranked in the top-20 in NCAA for those 3 events. He went on to compete in the 2016 Olympic Trials in the triple jump.
Bilal Abdullah shined under Eggerth’s leadership in 2015 becoming the first Owl to ever score points at the NCAA Indoor Championships. After winning the heptathlon at the A-Sun Championships establishing a new A-Sun heptathlon scoring record of 5600 points, he collected two wins (60m and long jump) and two second place finishes (60 meter hurdles and high jump) at the NCAA Indoor Championships for a new school record 5941 points and a 4th place finish in the nation. In 2015, Josh Mulder qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championship finals in the decathlon and Drew Duggans qualified in the 100m. Mulder took home second team All-American honors.
Andre Dorsey had one of the best seasons in a Kennesaw State uniform in 2014 being the only athlete in the country to qualify for the NCAA Indoor National Championships in three individual events (long jump, triple jump and high jump). At one point during the season, he was the number one triple jumper in the nation. Dorsey was named the Men’s Most Valuable Performer at the Atlantic Sun Championship for the third straight year and was named the South Region Athlete of the Year. He also was the first KSU track and field member to compete at the USA Outdoor Championships in 2013.
The Owls have also had a lot of success in the classroom under Eggerth. Since the Atlantic Sun debuted the Academic All-Conference team in 2012, Kennesaw State track and field and cross country have had 45 team members selected, including the 2016 Men’s Indoor Co-Scholar of the Year Joseph Yates and the 2012 Women’s Indoor Track and Field Scholar Athlete of the Year, Naomi Mack. In his first seven years, he has had 55 athletes become Presidential Scholars after achieving 4.0 GPA’s during a semester. The women's cross country team is a national program of Recognition for perfect APR four years in a row.
To go along with these student-athletes commitment in the classroom and the track, they are also committed to helping in the community as each of his student athlete’s put in a great deal of community service hours and have earned the athletic department’s community service award the last 3 years.
Eggerth came to Kennesaw State after spending the previous four years at Kansas State as their assistant coach for both track and field and cross country. At Kansas State, Eggerth worked with sprints and hurdles, also assisting with mid-distance and distance athletes. On top of his coaching duties, Eggerth also served as the assistant recruiting coordinator, assisted with fundraising and alumni relations, managed equipment and apparel, along with a host of other administrative responsibilities.
Prior to his time at Kansas State, Eggerth found great success at University of Alabama- Birmingham. After spending two years working with the sprinters and jumpers, Eggerth worked with the Blazer hurdlers and combined event athletes as well as recruiting, compliance and travel duties. During his three years there, the athletes under his direction were able to achieve 13 school records and seven freshman records.
Additionally, Eggerth worked for the National Sports Center (NSC) in Blaine, Minn. as the Track and Field Director for two years. During his time there, he managed almost 200 athletes while also organizing meets, planning the budget, hiring assistant coaches and recruiting athletes and coaching the sprinters and hurdlers at the NSC.
Before his appointment at the NSC, Eggerth completed his master’s degree in exercise physiology at Syracuse University while serving as a graduate assistant coach for sprinters and hurdlers. During this time, he was also competing in post-collegiate events.
Before his graduate work, Eggerth completed his undergraduate work at Bemidji State (Minn.) University, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in sport management. Eggerth’s success went beyond the classroom as he broke 16 school records, one conference record and qualified for the NCAA Championship in five events.
Eggerth is an instructor for the USTFCCCA Coaches Academy and has written the physiology curriculum. He has the IAAF’s Level 5 "Elite Coach" certification in sprints and hurdles, USATF level 3 certification in the Jumps, USTFCCCA certification in the combined events and throws, and has been to USATF level 2 certification schools in distance events, combined events, jumps, and throws. He is a certified strength and conditioning coach and has taken the USTFCCCA’s Javelin, High Jump, and Combined Events Master Coach certifications.
Eggerth is also very active in the Track and Field community serving as the Head Men’s Coach for Team USA to the IAAF Capital Cup Combined Events Challenge, being the coach’s chair for the ASUN, serving on the USTFCCCA Executive Committee and the NCAA T&F/XC Rules and Sport Committees.
He is married to Agne Eggerth and currently resides Acworth, Ga.
