Andrew Krause is in his ninth season with the Blue Dragons.

Krause has coached several position groups on both sides of the ball during his Blue Dragon tenure. For the 2024 season, Krause returns to the defensive side of the ball as the Defensive Backs coach, as well as co-Special Teams Coordinator and Recruiting Coordinator.

The 2023 season was another highly successful season for the Blue Dragons, reaching No. 1 in the national rankings and finishing with a 10-1 record and a berth in the NJCAA national semifinals. Krause guided punter Stefaan Forbes and return specialist Tre Richardson to first-team all-Jayhawk Conference performances and tight end Rodrecas Gibbs was an honorable mention all-KJCCC selection.

The 2020/21 season will go down as one to remember for Krause and the Blue Dragons. After navigating through the Coronavirus pandemic and having the 2020 season pushed back to the spring of 2021, Hutchinson wound up running the table, going 8-0 to win the Jayhawk Conference title and the program’s first NJCAA National Championship in its 89-year history with a 29-27 win over Snow College on June 5, 2021, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Just a few months later, the Blue Dragons were back on the field and finished 9-2 with a Jayhawk Conference playoff championship and a No. 3 final NJCAA national ranking.

Krause coached a first-team NJCAA All-American in tight end Ivan Thomas, who was a main cog in the Blue Dragon passing attack in the 2020/21 season.

In his first seven seasons with the Blue Dragons – the first four seasons were spent on the defensive side of the ball, Krause has produced 14 All-Jayhawk Conference special teams’ players, 10 all-KJCCC defensive backs and one offensive player in his first season as tight ends coach.

With 2022 kicker Cole Segraves earning Honorable Mention NJCAA All-America honors, Krause has coached four All-Americans. Segraves joins Thomas in 2020/21, Ronald Williams (DB, 2019) and Adrien Cross (DB, 2017)

Previous to coaching with the Blue Dragons, Krause had 24 years of coaching experience.

A native of Tucson, Arizona, Krause has 16 years of coaching at the high school level and eight in college, two seasons at Pima Community College (2006, 2007).

Prior to Hutchinson, Krause was the defensive backs coach/special teams coordinator at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. He coached two all-conference defensive backs and a first-team all-conference kick returner that had three returns for touchdowns.

Before Briar Cliff, Krause was the Defensive Coordinator and defensive backs coach at Southwestern College in Winfield from 2011-14. Southwestern had the No. 17-ranked pass defense in the NAIA in 2013, the same season Krause coached multiple Moundbuilder All-Americans.

Two years previous to Southwestern, Krause as an assistant at Santa Rita High School in Tucson. In those two years, that program was back-to-back state runner-up in producing a 24-4 overall record. Nine collective starters in the secondary were Tucson all-city players. The 2009 team allowed only two passing touchdowns all season.

Krause brings two seasons of international coaching to the Blue Dragons. In 2009 and 2010, he served as the defensive backs and wide receiver coach for the USA under-19 All-Stars at the Global Challenge Bowl in Japan (2009) and France (2010).

He got his start at Palo Verde High School and coached there from 1989-91 before moving on to Canyon Del Oro High School from 1996-99. Krause was at Catalina High School in 2000 and then coached at Ironwood Ridge High School from 2001-05. He then moved up to the college ranks for two years (2006-07) at Pima CC before heading back to high school and coaching at Santa Rita High School.

A graduate of Palo Verde High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1989, Krause played football at Pima Community College. He also played on Pima’s men’s volleyball team as a setter and outside hitter. Krause has also played in adult hockey leagues and from 2001 to 2007, he was also an assistant golf pro and instructor and competed in the PGA Southwest Section.

Krause earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Arizona in 2009.