Andrew Woolley serves as the Specialist Assistant Coach for the SUNY Brockport football program, working with the team’s kickers and punters and bringing more than two decades of specialist coaching experience to the Golden Eagles. In 2025, Brockport’s specialist unit converted 12 of 14 field goals and 31 of 33 PATs, produced a 69% touchback rate, averaged 46 yards net per punt, finished 2-for-2 on recovered onside and mortar kicks, and allowed the lowest punt return average in the conference. That season also produced all-conference honors for a freshman punter, a freshman long snapper, and a junior kicker, with the junior kicker being named the conference Special Teams Player of the Year.
In his first season at Brockport in 2024, Woolley’s specialist unit led the conference in total field goals, field goal percentage, and PAT percentage. The team’s punter was ranked third nationally and went on to become an NFL free agent, while both the kicker and punter earned all-conference recognition.
Before arriving at SUNY Brockport, Woolley spent the 2019–2023 seasons as the Kicking Game Coordinator at State College High School in State College, Pennsylvania. During that time, his specialist units consistently led the conference in total field goals, field goal percentage, net punt average, and touchback percentage, and were regarded as one of the top specialist groups in the state. Both the kicker and punter from that period are now Division I starters, and specialists he has coached have gone on to play at Penn State, Duquesne, Old Dominion, East Stroudsburg, Muhlenberg, Saint Francis, Ithaca, Lycoming, and Juniata.
Since 2002, Woolley has worked with kickers, punters, and long snappers from across the region at the high school, college, and NFL levels, with an emphasis on long-term development and helping athletes reach the next stage of their careers. From 1999 to 2002, he was the head men’s soccer coach at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he refined his approach to recruiting and player development and was first asked by head football coach Tom Gilburg to assist with the football team’s specialists.
A former dual-sport student-athlete, Woolley competed in the late 1980s on both the men’s soccer team and the football team at Penn State University, then played professional indoor and outdoor soccer for seven years after graduation. His wife, René, was a gymnast at Penn State and the program’s first-ever Big Ten champion; she currently serves as the head gymnastics coach at SUNY Brockport after previous coaching stops at UMass, Penn State, Stanford, Arkansas, and Arizona State.
