Andy Jenkins joined the Cal State Fullerton baseball staff prior to the start of the 2020 season after seven seasons at Oregon State as an assistant coach. Jenkins helped lead the beavers to the programs third national championship in 2018. The 2021 season will be his second with the Titans.

Jenkins played two seasons at Oregon State, helping guide the Beavers to the 2006 College World Series. He played professional baseball for the Florida Marlins and Texas Rangers organizations before returning to Corvallis as an undergraduate assistant coach in 2012.

• Cadyn Grenier was named the Pac-12’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2018, giving the Beavers three straight selections, following Logan Ice (2016) and Nick Madrigal (2017). 
• Madrigal, Grenier and catcher Adley Rutschman were all named First-Team Pac-12 and earned All-American honors. Grenier was also named the Brooks Wallace Award recipient as the nation’s top shortstop.
• Jenkins, who oversees the team’s infield and catchers, saw three of the team’s infielders named Pac-12 First Team in 2017 - Nick Madrigal, KJ Harrison and Cadyn Grenier. Madrigal was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year and its Defensive Player of the Year. Madrigal is just the second player in the conference to earn both honors in the same year over the last two decades.
• Two Oregon State players under Jenkins’ tutelage - Logan Ice and Nick Madrigal - earned major Pac-12 Conference honors in 2016. Ice was named the Defensive Player of the Year, while Madrigal was named the Freshman of the Year.
• Madrigal’s selection gave the Beavers two consecutive Freshman of the Year honors as he joined KJ Harrison, who won it in 2015.
• Ice was named a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award in 2016. The honor is given annually to the nation’s top collegiate catcher. Rutschman was named a semifinalist in 2018.
• Ice was charged with just one passed ball in 2016, and threw out nearly 45 percent of basestealers attempting against him.
• Oregon State’s catchers have thrown out at least 50 percent of opposing basestealers in four of Jenkins’ six seasons as an assistant coach. The Beavers are the only team in the Pac-12 Conference who have accomplished that feat.
• The Beavers have allowed only 127 stolen bases over that stretch, an average of less than 22 per season. They’ve thrown out 139 - an average of nearly 24 a season - for a 52.2 percentage.
• Oregon State’s fielding percentage has been at .972 or better in each of Jenkins’ six seasons. The 2014 Beavers finished with a school-record mark of .979, which was equaled by the 2018 team, which led the Pac-12 with 52 double plays.
• Since 2013, the Beavers have also turned 293 double plays, one of the top totals in the Pac-12.
• In the past four seasons, since 2014, OSU has committed just 24 passed balls. Ice, the team’s starter for three years during that stretch, was charged with only four.
• Ice, who was a second-round selection by Cleveland in the 2016 MLB Draft, ended his Oregon State career with a .996 fielding percentage and threw out 49-of-101 (48.5 percent) of opposing basestealers.

Jenkins lettered for the Beavers in 2004 and 2005, helping guide the team to its first visit to the College World Series in more than 50 years his junior season.

Jenkins, a native of Salem, Ore., was also the most prolific Beaver offensively during the team’s postseason run. He batted .459 - leading the team by more than 100 points - and tallied two home runs, two doubles and 13 RBI while slugging .784.

His .388 average as a senior in 2005 still stands as the 10th-best figure in team history. He also had 56 runs batted in that season.

He ended his two-year Oregon State career having played in 98 games, batting .343 with 12 home runs, 15 doubles, 86 RBI and 41 walks while striking out just 44 in more than 340 at bats. His .343 career average is just shy of being in the top 10 for a career at Oregon State.

After his Oregon State career, Jenkins was selected in the 11th round of the 2005 MLB First-Year Player Draft by Florida. He played six seasons in the Minor Leagues with Florida and Texas, reaching the Triple-A level in 2009 and 2010. His six-year career saw him tally 2,341 plate appearances and he batted .268 with 32 home runs, 116 doubles, eight triples and 277 RBI.

Jenkins came to Oregon State after a two-year career at Mt. Hood Community College where he batted .358 as a sophomore, and as a freshman, was named first-team all-league at catcher.

Jenkins graduated from Oregon State with a degree in psychology in 2012. He is a native of Salem, Ore., and married the former Jessica McGee in January 2013. They have two children, Blakely Drew and Presley.

Infield Honors Under Jenkins

All-America
2015: KJ Harrison (Freshman)
2017: Nick Madrigal
2018: Nick Madrigal, Cadyn Grenier, Adley Rutschman

All-Pac-12
2014: Logan Ice (HM)
2015: KJ Harrison (Freshman of the Year)
2016: Logan Ice (Defensive Player of the Year), Nick Madrigal (Freshman of the Year), KJ Harrison
2017: Nick Madrigal (Player & Defensive Player of the Year), Cadyn Grenier, KJ Harrison, Michael Gretler (HM), Adley Rutschman (HM)
2018: Cadyn Grenier (Defensive Player of the Year), Nick Madrigal, Adley Rutschman, Michael Gretler (HM)