Andy ran for University of Colorado and was a Four-time All-Big 12 Performer and a two-time cross country All-American.
Post collegiately Andy has represented Team USA 17 times, placing 2nd in 2015 and 3rd in 2014 in the Mountain Running Long Distance World Championships. He is a four-time trail national champion.
Andy is the founder of The Trail Team, a Boulder, CO based team who strives to increase support for US-based trail runners by sponsoring six under-supported sub-ultra runners, uniting the best unsponsored trail runners in the country, and promoting the trail community in Boulder with in-person training to compete at a world-class level.
He and his wife Karley have a dog named Fig who often goes on adventures with them.
Andy is also a huge proponent of trail running within more structured avenues, like USATF where he
was just elected as one of the athlete commision event leaders for mountain, ultra, trail division.
Andy recently published an article on ATRA. You can read it here: https://trailrunner.com/trail-news/usatf-what-is-its-role-in-mountain-ultra-trail-mut/