Andy Fleming Hometown: Braintree, Mass. Position: Associate Head Coach

Andy Fleming is in his second season as an assistant coach with the Wildcats after arriving from Boston University in June of 2007.

"Andy is widely regarded as one of the top assistant coaches in the country," Northwestern head coach Tim Lenahan said. "We have had several great assistant coaches here who have gone on to great success as head coaches and I certainly think that Andy is in that category."

In his first season with the Wildcats, Fleming helped NU to a second-round NCAA appearance, including the program's highest national ranking ever (third), its highest RPI ranking (second) and its first ever first-round bye in the NCAA tournament. Northwestern was nationally ranked the entire season, including spending the majority of the season in the top 10. The team's goals-against mark was tops in the Big Ten and marked the second straight year that Fleming oversaw a record-setting team defense, as BU tied a program mark for fewest goals allowed in 2006 and finished seventh nationally in goals-against average.

He assisted in the development of both David Roth, a second-team All-American, now with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer (MLS) and Piero Bellizzi, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and a first-team Soccer America Freshman All-American.

Prior to his arrival in Evanston, Fleming was an assistant coach at BU from 1998-2007, spending the last three years as associate head coach. His efforts helped the Terriers to winning seasons in eight of those nine years, while appearing in the top 25 in six of those seasons. The squad won America East regular season crowns in 2001 and 2004 and reached the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2004. BU earned results against teams from major conferences, including a tie against top-ranked Creighton in 1999 and a win against No. 5 Connecticut in 2002.

While in Boston, he was part of the recruitment and development of four conference players of the year, four All-Americans, two MLS draft picks, and the owners of the BU records for single-season goals and career assists. He also assembled the BU team which captured an NCAA at-large bid in 2007 and has five former players on professional soccer, most notably Andy Dorman of St Mirren in Scotland's Premier League.

Fleming has been recognized as one of the nation's top assistant coaches by College Soccer News on five occasions. He has assembled six consecutive nationally ranked recruiting classes, which included the 2002 National High School Player of the Year and seven high school All-Americans. On the youth level, he served as a co-head coach of the South Shore United Blazers which won the U.S. Youth Soccer East Region Title in 1999 and later went on to secure a spot as the nation's top-rated U17 team in May 2001. The team would go on to produce nine Division I players and two MLS draft picks.

Fleming holds a USSF `A' Coaching License, and is a contributing writer for World Class Coaching Magazine. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Sports Administration at Northwestern.

A former two-year captain at Marist College, Fleming helped lead the Red Foxes to a seventh-place ranking in the New York State Region in his senior year (1996). Upon graduation, Fleming joined the Marist staff in 1997 as an assistant coach.

The Braintree, Mass., native was inducted into the Archbishop Williams Hall of Fame in March 2004.

He and his wife, Amy, reside in Chicago.