Andrew came to Coquitlam in the spring of 2005 in a multi-team trade which also brought Bruce Murray and Jesse Phillips on board. He played like a veteran in his rookie WLA season due to his experience playing three seasons for Calgary in the NLL in which he helped the Roughnecks win the championship in 2004.

Andrew was born in Vancouver and was a relative latecomer to lacrosse. He first played in Ladner at age 11 and played all of his minor lacrosse in Ladner/Delta. He was captain of the New Westminster Junior Salmonbellies and was named to the League Second All-Star team and League Most Inspirational Player. Andrew is a very intense two-way player and scored 21 goals and 42 assists for 63 points plus 261 PiM (he does get involved emotionally) in 59 games as a Junior. A fierce competitor, he checks hard, runs hard and excels in transition.

He was the fourth overall pick by Calgary in the NLL. His Roughneck stats include 14 goals and 38 assists for 52 points plus 299 loose balls and 168 PiM in 83 games.

His 2007 season was ended far too prematurely due to a shoulder injury requiring surgery. His WLA stats to date include 6 goals and 21 assists for 27 pints and 107 PiM in 47 games. He also missed most of the WLA regular season last year while traveling in Central America.

He loves to travel and thoroughly enjoyed the two months in Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador including the good food, scuba diving and walking on Pacaya, an active volcano. He says that the Mayan people are very friendly and he felt safe in his travels while sporting his Canadian maple leaf emblem. However, he sent some e-mail travelogues which were hair-raising, especially when his plane nearly crashed during the notorious approach to the mountainous airport in Tegucigalpa. His next adventures will be ocean fishing in Tofino in October and touring Costa Rica with Adanac friends over Christmas.

Andrew played volleyball at Douglas College. He was a bartender for four years. He’ll return to Calgary this fall to complete his studies in broadcast journalism at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

“Big Mac” (not to be confused with “Mini-Mac” Brad MacDonald) cooks chicken on the Bar-B-Q and plans to diversify his talents so he can cook at home and not eat out so much. Andrew is an avid reader, especially non-fiction. His favourite novel is Memoirs of a Geisha. He reads about 20 books per year and liked Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. He enjoys any music with a good beat and should do well on the salsa dance floor in CR. His favourite movie is Braveheart which is fitting.

The people most influential in his lacrosse career were his youth and field lacrosse coaches, the Ladner Senior “B” players he watched play as a kid, his parents Gary and Judi and his inspirational Adanac teammate Gary Bining.