University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Andy Eggerth was named the University of Wisconsin-River Falls head track & field coach in August of 2021. In five seasons, the Falcons have continued to improve at the WIAC Championships, including the men tying a program-best fifth-place finish at the 2025 WIAC Outdoor Championships. On the women’s side, the Falcons have produced multiple conference champions, national qualifiers and All-Americans under Eggerth’s leadership.

During Eggerth’s tenure, UWRF student-athletes have claimed seven individual WIAC championships and multiple NCAA Division III All-America honors. The 2025-26 season was highlighted by one of the most successful years in program history. At the NCAA Indoor Championships, four Falcons qualified for national competition. Jacob Balcome captured the NCAA Division III men’s heptathlon national championship, his second consecutive, while also breaking the championship meet record with 5,487 points and earning USTFCCCA Most Outstanding Men’s Field Performer honors. Balcome also secured his second consecutive WIAC heptathlon title during the indoor season.

Lauryn Schutz and Ali Clifford both earned USTFCCCA Second Team All-America honors in the women’s weight throw, while Yaih Marial garnered Second Team All-America recognition in the high jump. Annika Gunderson was named the WIAC Judy Kruckman Women’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete.

During the 2026 outdoor season, six Falcons earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors. Balcome repeated as WIAC decathlon champion with 7,158 points, the second-highest score in WIAC Championship history, before finishing as the NCAA Division III national runner-up in the decathlon. Gunderson earned USTFCCCA Second Team All-America honors in the pole vault, while Schutz claimed USTFCCCA Second Team All-America recognition in the hammer throw.

Following the 2025 outdoor season, Eggerth and the UWRF coaching staff were named WIAC Outdoor Track & Field Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year.

Eggerth has served as the head men's coach for Team USA to the 2017 Capital Cup in Ottawa, Canada, as well as the jumps and combined events coach for the 2023 U-20 Pan American Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. At the U-20 Pan Am's eight of the nine competitors under Eggerth's care were able to podium and medal to secure the win for Team USA. He has since been selected as the assistant men's coach for the Thorpe Cup in Wetzlar, Germany, July of 2024. The Thorpe Cup has decades of history as a Combined-Events dual meet between Germany and the USA, where UWRF assistant coach Jordan Gray claimed the Bronze medal in 2023 to help Team USA win the competition.

Beyond international coaching, Eggerth brings 21 years of collegiate experience to River Falls, including stops at four Division I schools. Most recently, he served as the jumps and combined events coach at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley for two seasons. He helped guide UTRGV to their highest Western Athletic Conference team finishes before or since, including the top three finishers in the women's long jump at the WAC Outdoor Championships all over six meters.

In 2018, Eggerth founded the non-profit corporation MultiStars Track Club and Consulting in Atlanta, Ga. MultiStars is a non-profit organization with the primary goal of developing post-collegiate multi event and combined event athletes. He coached, provided therapeutic support and consultation for teams and individuals, and was involved with various speaking engagements including multiple presentations he'll give in January, 2024 at the Minnesota high school coaches association clinic.

A two-time NCAA Division I South Region Head Coach of the Year and an 18-time Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year, Eggerth developed 21 All-Americans, 72 NCAA qualifiers, 277 conference champions, 690 all-conference performers and 62 academic all-conference performers while at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga., where he was the Director of Track and Field and Cross Country from 2010-18. During his time in Kennesaw, he also led the Owls to 18 ASUN Team Championships, top 20 DI rankings for men and women, and led his student-athletes to 54 conference record-setting performances. 
 
Before his tenure at Kennesaw State, Eggerth spent four years as an assistant track & field and cross country coach in the Big 12 Conference at Kansas State University, where he worked with sprinters and hurdlers while assisting with mid-distance and distance student-athletes. On top of his coaching duties, Eggerth also served as the assistant recruiting coordinator, assisted with fundraising and alumni relations, and managed equipment and apparel.
 
Eggerth began his full-time collegiate coaching career at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), where he spent three years working with the sprinters, jumpers, hurdlers and multi athletes. His student-athletes achieved 13 program records and seven freshman records in addition to posting the team's highest ever conference finish before or since.  

He was also an instructor for the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Coaches Academy and wrote the physiology curriculum. He holds the World Athletics Level 5 "Elite Coach" certification in sprints and hurdles, USA Track & Field (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. 

As a student-athlete, Eggerth competed collegiately at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minn., breaking 16 school records, one conference record while qualifying in five events for the NCAA Division II Championships.

Eggerth is a native of Spring Lake Park, Minn., and earned bachelor's degrees in physical education and sport management from BSU. He then received a master's degree in exercise science from Syracuse University in 2002.