Coach Andy has been a pitching coach to over 22 years and to thousands of pitchers.  Coach Andy was a High School pitching coach for seven seasons.  His passion is to also conduct pitching camps and clinics to players and coaches alike.  

His teaching has always been the same...to teach pitchers to maximize their God-given talents into game execution in order to earn college scholarships or meet whatever goals the pitcher lays out in front of him.

Andy Bernard pitched his entire baseball career from Little League to his last year of college baseball.  In High School, he earned a Varsity Baseball uniform as a 9th-grade freshman, and in his four years of high school baseball he pitched an average of 100+ innings per season.  He feels that his greatest achievement in high school was to learn that it takes two pitches, thrown for strikes, to be successful pitcher.  Any pitcher may have a fastball, but the ability to change speeds and locate a second, (off-speed), pitch is what is needed to get high-school batters out.

Andy played Junior college baseball in his hometown of Bakersfield, CA for the Bakersfield College Renegades.  As a freshman, Andy tied the school single-season record for wins with a 9-3 record.  As a sophomore, he broke the record when he posted a 12-1 record.  Competing at the junior college level was very intense and enjoyable as the perfect weather of California made for year round learning and honing of pitching skills.

From Bakersfield, Andy earned a scholarship to play for The Alabama Crimson Tide.  Pitching in the 1996 and 1997 BAMA teams, Andy was a mid-reliever both years for incredible teams as they played their way to the NCAA College World Series.  Andy was selected to start Game 1 of the 1996 CWS facing Oklahoma State while his team was ranked #1 in the nation.  In 1997, the again #1 ranked Crimson Tide again played their way to the CWS where they lost the National Championship Game to a great LSU Tiger baseball team.  

The 1996 Alabama Crimson Tide Baseball Team won the Southeastern Conference Title and finished the year with a strong 50-19 record.  Andy earned the honor of being selected as a member to the 1996 South I Regional Team.

1997 Alabama Crimson Tide Baseball Team finished the season with an impressive 53-17 record where Andy and his younger brother, Matt Bernard were pitchers on the staff.

The following year Andy and Matt's younger sister, Amy Bernard, (now Amy McKenzie), matriculated to Alabama where she pitched as well.  Nothing could have made the Bernard kids or the Bernard parents more proud then to pitch together again, and in Crimson Tide uniforms.

For a copy of Andy Bernard's current Sports Resume, please email Andy and request one.

From the field to the backyard and from the backyard into print, Andy has compiled his knowledge of pitching and preparing for games into an instruction manual in order to reach out to more pitchers.  He received great coaching from three incredible men: his Dad, (who pitched in College Baseball himself), Coach John Moncier, (Bakersfield Junior College) , and Coach Jim Wells, (The University of Alabama).  With the knowledge shared from these great men, Andy became a "Student of the Game" himself.  He will always feel that there so much to learn about pitching or the game of baseball.  The learning will never stop and neither will the love for America's Pastime.  

Andy has been a member of the National Pitching Association since 2003.

 

Contact Coach Andy Bernard

by email at

andy@sevenstepsofpitching.com