Andy Waddle

Andy Waddle (born ) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach for Valparaiso University, a position he has held since 2025. He was the head football coach for Marietta College from 2013 to 2024. He also coached for Mansfield, Maryville (TN), and Wittenberg. He played college football for Findlay and Wittenberg as a defensive back.

Early life Waddle is from Enon, Ohio, and attended Greenon High School there. He graduated from Greenon in 1997. He then played college football for the Findlay Oilers before later transferring to the Wittenberg Tigers. He ended up playing three seasons at Wittenberg, being named All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) and helping the team reach the NCAA playoffs each year while winning the NCAC championship twice. Waddle helped the Tigers win two NCAC championships while sharing two additional NCAC titles in his eight-year stint there. They won one game in 2013, two in 2014 and 2015, three in 2016, and then went 6–4 in 2017 which was the program's first winning season since 2006. In 2018, Marietta started off with a record of 6–0, for the first time since 1920, eventually finishing with a record of 7–3, the school's best since 1996. He led the team to an 8–2 record in 2023, just the third time Marietta had ever won that many games in a season, and won the OAC Coach of the Year award for a second time. The Pioneers had a 13-game win streak from 2023 to 2024, which included an 8–0 start and a national ranking in 2024 for the first time ever. They reached the postseason in 2024 for the first time since 1973. Waddle finished his tenure at Marietta with an overall record of 55–61, which included seven winning records in his last eight seasons.

In December 2024, Waddle was announced as the new head coach for the Valparaiso Beacons.

Personal life Waddle is divorced and has two children.

Head coaching record