Andrew grew up playing youth hockey in Lakeville, MN. After graduating from Lakeville High School in 2002, he played junior hockey with the Twin Cities Northern Lights, where he was selected as an All-League Goaltender. Kent continued his playing career at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Kent was a four-year letter winner at Augsburg, playing from 2005 to 2009. He was an MIAC All-Conference award winner in 2007, earned MIAC All-Conference Honorable Mention in 2009, and served as an assistant captain for the Auggies as a senior in 2008–09. He graduated from Augsburg in May 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and a minor in management information systems.
Kent brings a wealth of coaching experience to the MEGA Goaltending staff. He has coached with the University of Minnesota Gopher men’s hockey team since 2017. Before that, he coached the Gopher women’s team (2011–2018), where his goalies broke numerous records and earned many awards. During his time with the women’s program, the Gophers won four National Championships (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016), three WCHA regular season championships (2012, 2013, 2014) and four WCHA Final Five championships (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018).
Kent returned to Augsburg in 2013 as goalie coach for the men’s team (2013–2017). His goalies earned All-American and All-Conference honors, and the team won the MIAC regular season championship (2016) and back-to-back MIAC conference tournaments (2016 and 2017).
Kent also coached the Finnish women’s national team at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He has served as the boys’ assistant coach at Roseville High School (2011, 2012) and consulted with teams, associations and camps from youth levels up to professional goalies.
Kent started coaching with MEGA in 2010. He has taken his experience as a player and instructor and developed some of the most effective techniques for developing both young and experienced goaltenders.
