Andy Lopez

Who is Andy Lopez?

Andy Lopez is an American college baseball coach. He is currently the head baseball coach at University of Arizona, and has served as the head baseball coach at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Pepperdine, and Florida. Lopez has compiled an overall win-loss record of 1,146–718–7 in thirty-two seasons as a head coach.

He is one of only twelve active coaches to have won a national championship, as well as one of only three coaches to lead three different programs to the College World Series and one of only two coaches, along with Augie Garrido, to win the College World Series with two different programs. His Division I teams have appeared in the postseason seventeen out of twenty-six seasons. He has earned National Coach of the Year honors two times, and Conference Coach of the Year honors eight times.

He began his coaching career at California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1983. The team won California Collegiate Athletic Association championships, and became a Division II national championship contender. From 1986 to 1987, his teams won back to back CCAA championships. In six seasons as the head coach, he compiled a 168-152-2 record.