Andy Janssen enters his eighth season at South Dakota State in 2024. Janssen has served as associate head coach for the Jackrabbits since the fall of 2020 after joining the staff in March of 2017. 

Janssen has helped the Jacks to a 93-24-20 mark during his time at South Dakota State, including a 49-5-11 mark in Summit League play. He handles the team's goalkeepers who have received numerous accolades, including a three-time Summit League Goalkeeper of the Year in Maggie Smither (2015-19) along with 2021 and 2022 Summit League Goalkeeper of the Year in Jocelyn Tanner. Janssen also oversees the development of forwards. That group includes Maya Hansen, who was 2022 Offensive Player of the Year and 2019 Freshman of the Year and holds multiple program offensive records. In 2023, forwards Katelyn Beulke and Jadenn Carrillo each were selected to The Summit League’s All-Newcomer Team and were honorable mention All-Summit League recipients.

The Jacks have compiled 40 all-conference selections over the past six seasons. 

Under Janssen’s coaching, the Jackrabbits have produced 76 shutouts. SDSU’s goalkeepers allowed their lowest goal output by opponents of five on the season in the spring of 2021 while their most shutouts of 15 came in 2019. SDSU has had two of its best seasons on the attacking front of late. The 2023 campaign, despite injuries to multiple letterwinners, recorded its third best marks in a season in assists (40) and points (128), as well as fourth in goals (44). The 2021 squad saw its most goals scored in SDSU’s Division I era with 50 in 2021. The Jackrabbits were led that year by Hansen's 35 points. The forward became the program's just third 30-point scorer in school history and first in over 20 years.

Janssen handles the team’s academic strategy. SDSU has averaged over a 3.60 GPA per semester under Janssen. Most recently, Tanner was named a Second Team Academic All-American in 2022 by the College Sports Communicators organization. It was the program’s just third Academic All-America selection ever. 

Janssen spent the previous seven seasons with Bemidji State and the last five as a full-time assistant coach. While at BSU, he helped the Beavers compile an 81-45-9 record (.626) with seven consecutive trips to the NSIC Tournament. He coached one NSIC Offensive and one Defensive Player of the Year, 14 all-region selections and 35 All-NSIC picks.

Janssen served as recruiting coordinator in his time at BSU and handled coordination of forward and midfield attacking patterns, planning and implementing practice sessions, goalkeeper training, scouting reports and assisting in making travel arrangements.

Prior to joining the Beavers, Janssen served as the director and coach of the Orange City (Iowa) Parks and Recreation soccer program from 2009-10. He also held a youth soccer coaching position at The Dakota Alliance Soccer Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota from 2006-10.

Janssen graduated in 2009 from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in business education with a coaching endorsement in addition to being a four-year letterwinner with the men's soccer team. He earned three All-Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) selections, was team captain in 2007 and 2008 and garnered NAIA All-America Honorable Mention accolades following the 2007 campaign. In addition, he played three summers in the Premiere Development League for the Sioux Falls Spitfire.

He earned his master’s degree in sports studies from Bemidji State in 2017 and currently resides in Brookings.

The Sioux Falls native currently holds a United Soccer Coaches Advanced National Diploma and a USC Level 3 Goal-Keeping Diploma. He is pursuing a Premier Diploma from the USC.