Andy Stankiewicz

Andy Stankiewicz
Stankiewicz speaks to his GCU team in 2022
Born
Andrew Neal Stankiewicz

(1964-08-10) August 10, 1964 (age 60)
Inglewood, California, U.S.
Alma materPepperdine University
Baseball career
Infielder
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 11, 1992, for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
September 23, 1998, for the Arizona Diamondbacks
MLB statistics
Batting average.241
Home runs4
Runs batted in59
Teams
Coaching career
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamUSC
ConferenceBig Ten
Record65–51–1 (.560)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2005Staten Island Yankees
2006–2009Arizona State (AC)
2012–2022Grand Canyon
2023–presentUSC
Head coaching record
Overall406–290–3 (.583)
TournamentsNCAA: 0–4–0 (.000)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
  • 4× WAC Coach of the Year (2017, 2018, 2021, 2022)
  • Rod Dedeaux USA Baseball Coach of the Year (2014)

Andrew Neal Stankiewicz (born August 10, 1964) is the head coach of the USC Trojans baseball team in Los Angeles and is a former Major League Baseball middle-infielder.

Stankiewicz had a seven-year MLB playing career spanning four clubs and 429 appearances. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1986 draft and went on to make his MLB debut with the club in 1992. He also played for the Houston Astros and Montreal Expos before closing out his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1998.[1]

Following his playing career, Stankiewicz worked in the Yankees organization including serving as the manager of the Staten Island Yankees in 2003 and 2005, a roving infield instructor in 2004,[2] and as a scout in 2006.[3] He led Staten Island, the Yankees' Class A affiliate, to the 2005 NY-Penn League Championship.[citation needed]

He got his first taste of college coaching with a three-year stint as an assistant coach at Arizona State under Pat Murphy,[4] making a pair of College World Series appearances in 2007 and 2009.[5]

Stankiewicz also served as the minor league field coordinator for the Seattle Mariners from 2009 to 2012[6] before taking the head coaching job at Grand Canyon.[7]

In an 11-year stint as the head coach at Grand Canyon, he inherited an NCAA Division II program and guided it through a transition to Division I where it stood as one of the nation's top mid-major programs[8] with five Western Athletic Conference regular-season championships[9] and multiple appearances in the nation's top-25 rankings.[10]

Stankiewicz went to St. Paul High School in Santa Fe Springs, California.[11] He is an alumnus of Pepperdine University, where he was a standout for the Waves baseball program and graduated in 1986 with a degree in sociology. He ranks in the top 10 in several Pepperdine career batting categories, and is third on the school's all-time list in stolen bases (101).[12]

  1. ^ "Andy Stankiewicz Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  2. ^ Forde, Mike (June 23, 2005). "Andy managing just fine with S.I. Yanks". New York Post. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  3. ^ Kepner, Tyler (September 22, 2006). "From Arizona, to Columbus, to the Bronx". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  4. ^ Skoda, Jason P. (July 6, 2006). "Arizona State grants Stankiewicz's wish". The Arizona Republic. p. 12. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  5. ^ "Arizona State Sun Devils - Baseball History - The Baseball Cube". TheBaseballCube.com. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  6. ^ "Willis, Stankiewicz named as Mariners minor league co-ordinators". The Seattle Times. November 24, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  7. ^ "Grand Canyon names Andy Stankiewicz as new head baseball coach". thepacwest.com. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  8. ^ Healy, Joe. "10 Mid-Major College Baseball Programs Primed For A Breakthrough In the 2020s". www.baseballamerica.com. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  9. ^ "Western Athletic Conference" (PDF). Western Athletic Conference. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  10. ^ "D1Baseball Top 25: Tennessee Clings To No. 1, Three Teams Enter • D1Baseball". D1Baseball. May 9, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  11. ^ Foster, Chris (May 20, 1992). "Gone but Not Forgotten: Angelus League, Disbanding After 31 Years, Has More Than Its Share of Memories". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  12. ^ "BASERecord Book2022 (PDF)" (PDF). Pepperdine University Athletics. Retrieved June 19, 2022.