Soccer
Farris Murad
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia College soccer coach Wealthy Rodriguez has introduced that Andrew Warwick has been employed because the Senior Defensive Analyst/Assistant Linebackers Coach on the Mountaineer teaching employees.
“Andrew is a good addition to our teaching employees, bringing a wealth of data and a confirmed monitor file of creating gamers at a excessive degree,” Rodriguez mentioned. “I am assured that his work ethic and management will make a big influence on our crew’s success transferring ahead.”
Warwick joins the Mountaineer soccer employees after spending the final three years because the co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach at Wofford.
In the course of the 2024 season, the Terrier protection ranked No. 4 within the Southern Convention, which included a go protection that led the league. In 2023, the protection reached No. 3 within the convention and inside linebacker David Powers earned All-Southern Convention Second Group honors beneath Warwick.
He spent the earlier three seasons because the linebackers coach at Troy. His tenure confirmed probably the greatest turnarounds within the nation because the Trojans improved 38 spots nationally in complete protection from 2019 to 2020. They led the nation with 4 defensive scores and by 2021, they rose to No. 24 nationally in complete protection.
Previous to his time at Troy, he was the defensive coordinator at Jacksonville State through the 2018 season. Warwick led the nation’s Fifteenth-ranked protection in his lone season at Jacksonville State because the Gamecocks allowed simply 311.3 yards per recreation and received their fifth-straight Ohio Valley Convention title. The Gamecocks ranked No. 7 nationally with 4 defensive touchdowns and completed No. 7 averaging 7.2 tackles for loss per recreation. Security Marion Bridges earned All-America honors from 5 totally different organizations following the 2018 season and was a candidate for the Buck Buchanan Award.
Warwick joined the Gamecocks employees following six seasons in numerous roles at Clemson. Throughout his tenure, the Tigers received the nationwide championship in 2016, made the title recreation in 2015 and earned a berth within the Faculty Soccer Playoff in 2017. Clemson posted a mixed 72-11 file throughout his six seasons in Demise Valley and received 4 main bowl video games – 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl over LSU, 2014 Orange Bowl over Ohio State, 2015 Orange Bowl over Oklahoma and the 2016 Fiesta Bowl over Ohio State – along with its title victory over Alabama.
Warwick served because the senior defensive analyst in 2017 in his ultimate season beneath defensive coordinator Brent Venables when Clemson completed No. 2 within the nation permitting simply 13.6 factors per recreation and No. 4 permitting simply 276.7 yards per recreation.
He was a defensive analyst on the 2016 Nationwide Championship squad that completed No. 8 nationally in complete protection after two seasons because the defensive director of participant growth. Warwick started his Clemson profession as a graduate assistant in 2012. Clemson led the nation in complete protection in 2014 and in tackles for loss in 2015.
The native of Oklahoma Metropolis, Okla., started his teaching profession in 2008, when he grew to become the defensive backs coach at Thomas Extra Faculty and helped lead the Saints to a league title. Warwick spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons at Central Oklahoma the place he coached defensive backs together with All-American Giorgio Durham. Previous to his stint at Clemson, Warwick spent one season at Coffeyville Neighborhood Faculty in 2011.
Warwick earned his bachelor’s diploma in historical past from Knox Faculty in 2007 the place he was a three-year starter at tight finish and huge receiver. He received the Mike Cross Award because the crew’s prime receiver in 2006. He obtained his grasp’s diploma in athletic management from Clemson in 2014.
He’s married to the previous Anita Kirankumar and have two youngsters, KJ and Timothy.
