Eleven years after serving as men's basketball assistant coach and earning his Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction from William Woods University, Andrew Green returned to WWU and was named the men's basketball head coach on June 2, 2025.
Green returns to William Woods, ranked ninth in the latest NAIA Men's Basketball Coaches' Top 25, after serving as the assistant men's basketball coach at WWU's former American Midwest Conference opponent, Columbia College, for the last four seasons, 2021-25. During Green's time with the Cougars, they recorded an overall record of 90-36, back-to-back NAIA National Tournament appearances (2023-24) and a team GPA of 3.3 in '24-25 while placing 11 on the academic All-AMC list and five NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
Season by season, during Green's stint with Columbia: The Cougars went 22-8 overall and 14-4 in the AMC with a third-place regular season AMC finish and a run to the AMC Tournament semifinals in 2024-25; 24-7 overall and 12-2 AMC while tying for first in the AMC regular season and receiving an NAIA National Tournament at-large bid in '23-24; 23-9 overall and 12-4 AMC with a sweep of the AMC regular season and tournament championships in '22-23; and 21-12 overall and 13-3 AMC with a second-place AMC regular season showing and AMC Tournament final appearance in '21-22.
Prior to Columbia, Green was an assistant men's basketball coach in 2020-21 at NJCAA Division I State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Mo., returning to his home state following the onset of the pandemic.
The season before the COVID-19 campaign, Green spent one season, 2019-20, in Olympia, Washington, as the head men's basketball coach at Northwest Athletic Conference South Puget Sound Community College. The Clippers finished that season 23-6 overall and 12-2 in the NWAC West, advancing to the Elite 8 in postseason play (tournament canceled). SPSCC earned the Fall Team Academic Excellence Award with a team GPA of 3.07, graduating all sophomores that all moved on to four-year basketball programs.
Green's last job in Fulton before his new role was with NCAA Division III Westminster College as its associate head men's basketball coach, along with being the head coach of men's/women's golf, men's/women's cross country and men's tennis from 2014-19. Under Green's guidance, the Blue Jays won two straight St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament championships while qualifying for the NCAA DIII Tournament, 2016-17. Off the court, Westminster received the SLIAC Team Sportsmanship Award four consecutive years, 2015-18.
In his first basketball position outside of Missouri, Green was more than just out of state. He spent the 2014 (Italian Tour; Italy) and 2016 (EuroSlam Tour; Austria, Slovenia and Italy) summers in Europe as a men's head coach and tour chaperone of NAIA and NCAA DII-III players representing the USA in overseas competition for USA Athletes International. Between the two tours, Green notched an overall record of 9-2, and he was tasked with oversight of all team logistics, travel and cultural activities, including stops in the Italian cities of Rome, Florence, Pisa and Venice in 2014 and Vienna, Austria, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Venice in '16.
Not long before Green's first spectacular summer coaching hoops in Europe, he wrapped up his two-season spell (2012-14) as an assistant for the program he now leads, William Woods. In his first role with Owls men's basketball, Green was involved with all facets of the program and academic oversight of all players in the program, including grade monitoring and study session supervision.
During the offseason, summers 2012-18, Green was a camp director for Midwest Elite Basketball. He directed basketball camps for high school-aged boys and girls in various locations across the United States. He was a camp director in Bloomfield, Ind., La Porte City, Iowa, Kissimmee, Fla. and Cedar Hill, Mo. and a camp coach in Hurley, Wis., Pontotoc, Miss., Beatrice, Neb. and Perryville, Mo.Â
Green's prep hoops summer camp work came after his first and only high school basketball coaching role at MSHSAA Class 1 Northwestern in Mendon, Mo., where he was the head boy's varsity basketball coach and social studies teacher from 2010-12. The Eagles posted a 31-19 overall record over Green's two years in charge. He also coached Northwestern's junior high basketball, high school cross country and high school track & field teams and assisted high school girl's basketball.
Outside of coaching, Green brings a plethora of college athletics administration experience as he was a site administrator for Missouri Reign Semi-Pro Soccer (summer 2024-25), game administrator for Columbia College men's/women's soccer, baseball and lacrosse (fall 2023 - May 2025), 2023 NAIA Women's Soccer National Tournament site administrator, 2021 NAIA Women's Soccer National Tournament site supervisor, 2021 NAIA Men's Soccer National Tournament site supervisor and game supervisor/operations for multiple institutions in football, baseball, softball, volleyball, men's/women's soccer, women's basketball and men's/women's tennis (2012-19).
On top of that, Green also has higher education staff side experience outside of athletics as he was an academic advisor at South Puget Sound CC and director of student involvement and admissions counselor at Westminster.
Flipping it to the faculty side, Green has taught 10 different college courses: Cardio and Theories of Coaching at Columbia (2022-25), Educational Psychology and Intro to Teaching at Missouri Valley College (Fall 2020) and LST: The Leader Within, LST: Greek Leadership, Lifetime Fitness for Students on the Autism Spectrum, Art of Strength, Lifetime Fitness and Rec Games at Westminster (2014-19). Additionally, he was a K-8 physical education teacher at St. Peter Catholic in Fulton (2014-16) and a middle school/high school social studies teacher at Northwestern (Mendon) High School (2010-12).
Green earned a Bachelor of Science in history from Central Methodist University in May 2010 and a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction from William Woods in May 2014.
A native of Marceline, Mo., Green and his wife, Marilyn, have one daughter, Emma Kate.
