Anderson is now in his 12th year of coaching and is very optimistic for the 2007-08 season.  An assistant coach at CCS from 1996 to 1999, Anderson was part of three men’s, two women’s and three combined team NWAACC titles.  He was the head coach at Clark Community College from 1999 to 2003 where his women’s team won two NWAACC titles (2002 and 2003) in cross country and the 2003 title in track and field.  He was named the NWAACC Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and NWAACC Track and Field Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2003.  Anderson has coached over 90 distance All-American’s including NWAACC Champions in every distance event. 

Anderson is a product of the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system as a graduate of Clark College in 1994 after a brief stint overseas in Operation Desert Storm.  He earned his A.A. degree at Clark as well as four community college All-American awards (cross country, 3000 steeplechase, 5000 and 10000).  He graduated from Linfield College in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and another two NAIA All-American awards in track and cross country including a third place finish nationally in the steeplechase and 17th  in cross country.  He was a four-time NCIC Conference Champion in cross country, the 5000 meters and the steeplechase.  He received his graduate degree at Eastern Washington University in 2003 in exercise science and physiology.  His thesis was a study of deep water running in elite distance runners.  He was a sponsored athlete for Brook’s Shoe Company from 1996 to 2001 and continues to run today.

Coach Anderson resides in Spokane with his wife Mariza, and two daughters; Ripley and Evelyn.  He is a faculty member of the Physical Education and Health Department at Spokane Community College.