Andrew Hirsch begins his first season as an assistant softball coach at Gettysburg College in 2014. Hirsch is also in his second season as an assistant baseball coach at Gettysburg.
In his first season with the Bullets baseball program, Hirsch helped the Bullets to one of their most successful seasons in program history. Gettysburg went 30-13, broke the school record for wins in a season, and reached the Centennial Conference playoffs for the first time in six years.
Hirsch has been highly involved as a baseball coach and instructor since his graduation from Juniata College in 2011. He worked as an assistant coach at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2012 and helped the team capture runner-up honors in both the Interstate Athletic Conference and the D.C. High School Baseball Classic for Private/Parochial schools.
In the summer of 2012 and 2013, Hirsch served as an assistant coach for the Alexandria Aces of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League. In 2013, he helped the team set the program record for victories (28) for the second year in a row while posting its first playoff victory in franchise history. In addition, he works as a baseball and softball instructor for Gregg Ritchie’s Starting Lineup in Fredericksburg, Va. Ritchie is the current head baseball coach at George Washington University and former hitting coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hirsch, who is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association, has also served as a camp assistant and instructor for Baseball Factory in Columbia, Md. as well as a coach and instructor for Virginia Baseball Club, Inc. in Merrifield, Va.
At Juniata, Hirsch helped the Eagles capture the Landmark Conference regular season baseball title in 2008 and finish as Landmark Conference tournament runner-ups in 2010. He obtained a bachelor of arts degree in business management, and he also earned a master’s degree in sports industry management from Georgetown University in 2012.
