University of South Dakota Athletics

South Dakota offensive line coach Andrew Prevost joined Nielson on the Coyotes’ coaching staff in December of 2015 and has worked with Nielson since 2011. Prevost coached USD tight ends in 2016 and 2017 before managing the line.

Accolades for his "hippos", as they are affectionately called, include left tackle Alex Jensen becoming the program’s first all-Valley offensive lineman since 2017. Jensen earned the honor after leading the Coyotes back to the postseason in 2021 for the second time in five seasons. The Coyotes topped 170 yards on the ground per game for the third time in the last four full seasons. That includes four 300-plus efforts in the last two full campaigns.
 
In addition to Jensen, guard Mason Scheidegger was a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree, served as a team captain and earned honorable mention all-MVFC honors in back-to-back seasons. Back in 2019, Isaac Erbes and Kian Rexroat-Potts were named to FCS Freshmen All-America teams.
 
The run game isn’t all that has flourished under Prevost. The Coyotes boasted the Valley’s top passing attack in each of the three seasons prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. South Dakota averaged 290 yards through the air in those three years.

Prevost began his coaching career in 2010 working as a student assistant coach at Wisconsin-Eau Claire, his alma mater, where he lettered two years on the offensive line for the Blugolds. Prevost graduated with a degree in organizational communication/information systems in 2011.

Prevost continued his career at the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2011 and worked there for two years under Nielson as the linebackers coach. While at UMD, Prevost received a master’s degree in education. He helped tutor NSIC North Division All-Conference First Team athletes Rob Huberty and Derrick Zappa in 2011 and did the same for All-NSIC honoree Nate Zuk in 2012.

In 2013, Prevost took the defensive lineman job at Western Illinois. That year, the Leathernecks finished seventh in the nation in total defense, 14^th in first downs defense and 31^st in third down conversion defense.

For 2014, Prevost switched to the offensive side of the ball and was the tight ends coach. In 2015, he helped WIU return to the Division I FCS playoffs where the team went to the second round and finished the season with seven wins.

Prevost is a native of Galesville, Wisconsin, and was a 2005 graduate of Gale-Ettrick-Tremplealeau High School. He and his wife, Cortney, have a son, Brooks, and a daughter, Emersyn.