TCU Names Darryl Anderson Track & Field Coach
11/18/2004 12:00:00 AM
Nov. 18, 2004
Darryl Anderson, an associate track & field coach at Arizona State University, has been named head track & field coach at TCU, Horned Frogs' Athletics Director Eric Hyman announced today.
"Darryl Anderson is a fantastic addition to the TCU Athletics Department," said Hyman. "We canvassed the country and his name consistently came up across the track nation during our search. Everybody holds him in the highest regard. We feel TCU has captured one of the bright new stars in the track coaching profession."
Anderson has spent the past eight seasons at Arizona State, directing the sprints, hurdle and relay events for the Sun Devils. A mentor of nearly 50 all-Americans in his 20-year coaching career, including 21 at ASU, Anderson has guided eight relays to all-America honors (men's 4x100 - twice; men's 4x400 - three times; women's 4x400 - three times).
Anderson was honored as the 2004 MONDO Men's Assistant Coach of the Year for men's sprints and hurdles, as he guided five men and five women to a combined 15 All-America honors. His men's 4x100m relay team logged the fastest time in the nation during the 2004 campaign and garnered national runnerup honors. The ASU men's 4x400 meter relay unit captured its fourth straight Pac-10 title and placed fourth nationally. The Sun Devil men's relays swept both the Pac-10 and NCAA West Region titles. During the indoor season, his men's 4x400 meter relay unit set the collegiate record at 3:03.43. On the women's side, freshman Jackie Johnson won the NCAA heptathlon title during the outdoor season and was the indoor pentathlon runnerup, while the 4x400 meter relay unit garnered all-America honors during the outdoor season.
Anderson mentored several individual standouts during his tenure in the Valley of the Sun, including sprinters Marcus Brunson and Lewis Banda. Brunson, the 2001 Pac-10 Athlete of the Year, broke the collegiate indoor 60-meter record and was the NCAA runner-up in that event in 1999. After graduating from ASU, Brunson won the 100m gold medal at the 2001 World University Games. Banda was a three-time All-American in 2004 and an Olympic semifinalist in the 400m dash while competing for Zimbabwe.
Prior to his arrival in Tempe, Anderson served as an assistant at Kentucky where the Wildcats won 11 Southeastern Conference sprint titles and set 34 school records. In the process, 15 Wildcat sprinters earned All-America honors. Anderson's most decorated student-athlete was UK's Tim Harden, a 1996 Olympic silver medalist who won three NCAA sprint titles. Harden was selected as the NCAA Indoor and SEC Athlete of the Year in 1995 and 1996. More recently, Harden won the 60m title at the 2001 World Indoor Championships.
Prior to his stint in Lexington, Anderson was an assistant coach for six years at his alma mater, Kansas State University. Anderson led the Wildcats to 20 Big Eight sprint titles and seven conference records. Nine of his athletes earned All-America acclaim and 26 school records were set during his tenure.
Anderson has coached four Olympians (Dwight Phillips, Connie Teaberry, Lewis Banda and Tim Harden), several World Championship team members and several USA Junior team members, including former Sun Devil Tony Berrian, the 1997 400m junior national champion. In 1995, Anderson was selected to the South coaching staff at the Olympic Festival.
Anderson graduated from Kansas State in 1983 and earned his master's degree from the school in 1985. He and his wife, Claire, have a 16-year-old daughter, Kandace, a seven-year son, Isiah, and three-year old daughter, Jasmine.
EXPERIENCE:
Kansas State University Assistant Track & Field Coach 1985-1991
University of Kentucky Assistant Track & Field Coach 1991-1996
Arizona State University Assistant Track & Field Coach 1996-2004
Arizona State University Associate Head Track & Field Coach 2004
EDUCATION:
Vincennes Junior College Associate of Arts 1980
Kansas State University Bachelor of Science - Sociology 1983
Kansas State University Master of Science - Counseling and Student Personnel Work 1985
