Anthony Anderson joined the UTEP staff on July 2, 2019.
He helped lead UTEP to a 7-1 start to the 2021-22 season that featured a pair of wins over rival NM State. Throughout the season the Miners faced a bevy of schedule changes due to COVID-19, having four total games rescheduled or canceled, including the first two Conference USA games at LA Tech and Southern Miss. Despite the adversity, the Miners would upend a duo of conference favorites in Middle Tennessee and Old Dominion towards the beginning of league action. UTEP finished the campaign 14-15 overall and had Katia Gallegos named to the All-Conference USA second team. Destiny Thurman was an honorable mention selection.
Anderson helped guide the Miners through the Covid-affected 2020-21 season. They finished 17-8 and earned a berth into the semifinals of the 2021 Conference USA Championships. It marked UTEP's first appearance in the semifinals of the tournament in five years. Additionally, Anderson has now been a part of consecutive winning campaigns for the first time at the school since a four-year stretch from 2010-11 through 2013-14.
UTEP was a stout 9-2 at at home, with the winning percentage of .818 ranking as the seventh highest at home in school annals. Even more impressive was a record of 7-5 on the road, ensuring the first winning road record in five years. That effort also tied for the fourth-most road wins in a year in program history. The Miners enjoyed a nine-game winning streak in the middle of C-USA action, tying for the sixth longest at the school. Individually Katia Gallegos was named to the All-Conference USA first team.
In his first season with the program he helped UTEP forge a mark of 16-14, culminating with a 95-67 victory against Florida Atlantic in the opening round of the 2020 C-USA Championships. The Miners set school conference tournament records for margin of victory (28), points (95) and 3-pointers made (11), while tying the mark for field goals made (33), 3-point percentage (50.0 percent) and overall field-goal percentage (55.0 percent).
The Orange and Blue broke the school standard for most 90+ point games in a season (four). UTEP also cracked the school’s top-10 season list for assists per game (15.1-tied third), points (2129-fifth), scoring offense (71.0-fifth), turnovers forced (598-sixth), field goals made (771-seventh), field-goal percentage (.419-tied seventh), assists (452-eighth), free throws made (424-eighth), 3-point field-goal percentage defense (.299-eighth), home wins (12-tied eighth), 3-pointers made (163-10th), games played (tied 10th). Individually Katarina Zec earned All C-USA second-team honors and Katia Gallegos was named to the C-USA All-Freshman team.
Anderson came to El Paso from UTRGV, where he was an assistant coach from 2014-19. He was a part of the school’s record-breaking run from 2014-17 as UTRGV posted back-to-back-to-back 19-win seasons and three consecutive postseason tournament trips (2015 WBI, 2016 WNIT, 2017 WBI). UTRGV added an 18-victory campaign and another WBI berth in 2019. UTRGV’s 2014-15 campaign produced the first winning season (19-15) in school annals.
While at UTRGV, Anderson transitioned WAC Player of the Year Shawnte’ Goff from small forward to point guard during the 2015-16 season. She concluded her career rated no. 2 in school history with 336 assists. A first team All-District, second team All-Area, Offensive MVP and Academic All-District honoree, she is currently playing for the Czech Republic. Another of Anderson’s protégés was T’Ondria Nolen, who developed into one of the top point guards in the WAC. She led the league in assist/turnover ratio (2.08) and recorded 131 assists, the third-most in school history, during the 2014-15 season.
Anderson was associate head men’s coach at Paul Quinn College, an NAIA school, from 2011-12. He was an assistant men’s coach at Lamar State, an NJCAA program, from 2012-14.
He earned his bachelor of arts degree in liberal studies from FIU in 2011, and his masters in sports science and compliance from the United States Sports Academy in 2013.
