After leading USC baseball to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2015, Head Coach Andy Stankiewicz has agreed to a three-year extension, the University announced Aug. 8. Stankiewicz is now under contract until 2030.

While the Trojans were eliminated in the initial pool-play round of the tournament after back-to-back losses to No. 8 Oregon State, last year was one of the best seasons in recent memory for arguably the most storied baseball program in the nation.

Even before the extension, the Inglewood-born skipper behind the Big Ten’s fourth-best record (18-12, 37-23) said he was hoping to stick with his near-hometown team for a while.

“I want to be here for a long time,” Stankiewicz said a few days before the NCAA Tournament according to the Los Angeles Times. “This is where I grew up. This is where I’d love to be.”

Stankiewicz has a roughly 58% winning percentage (102-74-1) in three seasons as the Trojans’ coach. The three-straight 30-win seasons and top-four conference finishes are the first such run for USC since 2000-2002.

Before coming to USC, Stankiewicz led Grand Canyon University to five Western Athletic Conference regular-season championships in 11 seasons, including the team’s first NCAA tournament appearance as a Division I school in 2021. He also played middle infield for seven seasons in MLB for the New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros.

Maintaining a Trojan baseball legacy

USC has won more College World Series than any other program with 12 — four more than second-place LSU — but hasn’t taken home a title since 1998. The Trojans won 11 of their championships from 1948 to 1978.

However, before Stankiewicz took over and led the team to three winning years, the former powerhouse was floundering after six consecutive .500 or worse full seasons, not counting the shortened 2020 campaign.

“[USC] is one of, if not the most prestigious collegiate baseball programs in the country,” Stankiewicz said in an interview with the Daily Trojan during his first season as USC’s coach. “[I] certainly knew we got some big challenges in front of us … But I just wanted to be a part of helping USC baseball get back to where I think and I believe we need to be.”

In his first two seasons, Stankiewicz led USC to solid runs in the Pacific-12 Conference — including an appearance in the 2024 Pac-12 Championship Game — but the 2025 NCAA berth is the crown jewel of his first three years with the Trojans.

During his 2025 campaign, Stankiewicz became the second coach in USC history to win 100 games in their first three seasons, following American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Mike Gillespie.

“Coming here and competing in this environment, it’s a good thing. It’s all good steps. It’s all part of the process,” Stankiewicz said about USC’s performance in the 2025 NCAA Tournament per the L.A. Times. “Sometimes people get impatient. We want everything to happen now, and certainly I’d love to be going to a super regional. Didn’t happen, but it’s going to happen, and we’re just going to keep moving in the right direction.”