Andy Jarvis joined Fox's staff in August 2017 and was promoted to Associate Head Coach in January of 2020.
In seven seasons under Fox and Jarvis, the UNLV softball program has seen success it hadn't experienced in a decade.
During the 2024 season, the Rebels marked the first appearance at the Mountain West Softball Championships since 2006 and since the conference reinstated the tournament in 2023.The Rebels went on to capture a second-place finish in the MW standings with a 14-8 record. Freshman catcher Jesse Farrell marked her name on the TUCCI/NFCA DI Freshman of the Year Top-25 watch list becoming the first Rebel to be recognized since it was created in 2014. Two different Rebels set new program records as Maddie Schmidt holds the school record in stolen bases with 81 and Janyssa Martin is the hit-by-pitch school record holder with 31 times.
In 2023, the Rebels went 23-27 and 9-13 in Mountain West play. UNLV earned four MW postseason accolades with Ariana Martinez on the All-Mountain West first team for the third consecutive season and Maddie Schmidt, Skyler Shaw and April Visser being selected to the All-MW second team.
The Rebels went back to the NISC tournament in 2022 after having a 43-15 overall record and earned a second-place finish. UNLV’s 43 wins marked the first time since 2005 to collect 40 or more wins in a season. The Rebels set 14 program records which include eight team records, three single-season records and three career records. A league-high seven Rebels were selected to the All-Mountain West Team. Jenny Bressler was the lone pitcher in the MW to deliver a sub-1.00 ERA season, as she cracked the benchmark at .097 and had 13 conference wins, 11 complete games, seven shutouts and six saves.
Following a pandemic-shortened 2020, the Rebels started the 2021 season 11-4 to give them at least 11 wins through the first 15 games for the fourth consecutive year. That start paved the way for their fourth straight winning season with a 25-15 overall mark and 17-7 conference record. UNLV’s 17 league wins matched a program record for the most since UNLV joined the Mountain West in 2000 and secured its highest conference finish since 2014 at second place in the MW standings.
The 2020 squad was off to another promising start at 21-5 heading into the conference play before the Covid-19 Pandemic abruptly cut the season short.
After a 33-20 record and a National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC) regional final appearance in her first season in 2018, Fox and the Rebels topped that in 2019, going 36-14 and just missing out on its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2009 as one of the committee's first four teams out. The 36 wins were the most since the 2007 squad went 37-27. The back-to-back 30 wins since also mark the first time since 2009 and 2010 the Rebels have accomplished the feat.
Working primarily with the hitters and outfielders, Jarvis has helped the Rebels rank near the top of the conference at the plate and in the field the last four years. They finished 2021 ranked among the top-3 in the league in six major offensive categories, including batting average (.286), slugging (.458) and on-base (.360) percentages, RBI (180), doubles (53) and home runs (39). UNLV continued its trend of strong defensive play, leading the league in fielding percentage for the fourth straight year and finishing with its third top-15 national ranking in the past three seasons. The 2020 squad hit .292 and had 134 hits through 26 games, which both ranked fourth in the Mountain West, while their .980 fielding percentage was top-10 in the country when the season ended. UNLV's .314 batting average in 2019 was just its third over .300 since 2011, while the Rebels set new program records for best fielding percentage (.979) and fewest errors (30) in Rebel softball history. Their 2019 fielding percentage mark ranked in the top-10 in the country all season long with the outfielders committing just two errors in 50 games. Overall, the Rebels had eight players hitting over .300 in 2019.
Jarvis was also instrumental in helping land standout first baseman Mia Trejo and second baseman Justine Federe on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region teams, with Trejo earning back-to-back nods and Federe picking up the honor in 2019. Both players earned Mountain West All-Conference nods in the shortened 2020 season and were on pace to pick up NFCA All-Region selections again.
Jarvis followed Fox from the University of Texas-Arlington, where he served as Fox's assistant from 2013-16 before being promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2017 season.
Together, Fox and Jarvis led the Mavericks to five consecutive conference tournament appearances and most recently their first postseason berth since 2003 as the team played in the National Invitational Softball Championship after a 32-win campaign last season. The 2017 season was also one of the best offensively in program history, with Jarvis helping the Mavericks set marks for runs scored, hits, and RBI, while posting the second-highest batting average all-time.
The Renton, Washington native played baseball at Oregon State, where he was a four-year starter and three-time All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention selection. Jarvis remains in seven Oregon State all-time career top-10 record books and still owns the Beavers' single-game home run record (3, vs. Washington State - 2001), the career RBI and total bases record and is tied for the career home run mark.
After playing professionally at the minor league level for two seasons, Jarvis spent five seasons as a volunteer assistant baseball coach at Texas Tech, working with his former college coach Dan Spencer, who was the Red Raiders' associate head coach. During his time at TTU, the Red Raiders won 140 games, including 36 over ranked opponents, and saw 28 players selected in the Major League Draft.
Fox and Jarvis have two sons together, Andrew, Michael, and a daughter Lillian.
