Andy Majors - Women's Basketball - Kansas Jayhawks

Andy Majors

TITLE Director of Player Development
PHONE 864-4938

Bio

Andy Majors enters his fourth season with Kansas women’s basketball as the Director of Player Development for head coach Brandon Schneider and the Jayhawks in 2018-19.

Majors spent five seasons at Stephen F.  Austin after a two-year stint as an assistant coach at Pittsburg State, where he helped lead the Gorillas to a 34-23 record in that time, including 20-9 in 2008-09.

With the Ladyjacks, Majors helped SFA win back-to-back league titles in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and make three postseason appearances. During the 2014-15 season, the Ladyjacks won their second-straight Southland Conference title with a 23-8 overall record.

Majors worked with the post players and centers at SFA and saw Porsha Roberts earn Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2013-14 for her stellar play in the paint. Roberts was among the top shot blockers in the nation and became the all-time blocks leader in SFA history during the 2013-14 season. She went on to earn conference player of the year honors during the 2014-15 season.

As an assistant for the Gorillas, Majors’ duties included coordinating opponent scouting, monitoring academic progress and in-practice statistics. He also assisted with preseason conditioning and on-floor coaching, specifically with the Gorilla forwards and centers.

Majors was a standout quarterback for the Gorilla football team from 2002-05 and a crucial part of the Gorillas’ national runner-up finish in 2004. He holds school records for most passing yards in a season (3,065 in 2005), career completions (352), single-season completions (198 in 2005), single-season completion percentage (.657 in 2004) and single-season total yards (4,028 in 2005). Majors earned three All-MIAA honors, earning first-team honors in 2005, honorable mention in 2004 and honorable mention as a wide receiver in 2003. An honorable mention All-American by The Football Gazette in 2005, Majors was also successful in the classroom as he earned MIAA Commissioner’s Honor Roll status three times.

Majors also served as the color commentator for all Gorilla football games and spent one year playing arena football for the Omaha Beef. He was an assistant football coach at Shawnee Mission North High School for the 2006-07 school year and the head sophomore boy’s basketball coach at Shawnee Mission West High School in 2007-08.

Majors earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pittsburg State in 2006, and completed his master’s degree in education from PSU in 2010. He is married to A.J. Majors, a four-year softball letterwinner at Pittsburg State. The Majors’ have one child, Mason.