Kent Anderson

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Kent Anderson (born 1962 in Fort Dodge , Iowa ) is an American football coach . Since 2018 he has been working at a school in Iowa. Prior to that, he was in charge of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes , the Braunschweig Lions , the Hamburg Blue Devils and the Berlin Adler in the German Football League , as well as the teams at Iowa Wesleyan College and Waldorf University in the field of American college football . With his seven German Bowl victories , he is the most successful coach in the history of the league.

Career

Anderson grew up in Bloomfield and played the running back position in high school . He studied at Iowa State University and continued to play there. After completing his bachelor's degree, he worked in sales for six years, then moved to the University of North Carolina , where he took on a number of duties as assistant coach for the football team. He was an assistant coach at Simpson College, Iowa, for a year.

Anderson came into contact with American football in Germany through a friend who had trained and played for the Braunschweig Lions in Germany for some time . In 1993 he led the Braunschweiger as a player-coach to promotion to the Bundesliga, from 1994 he was exclusively head coach of the Lions. With the team he won the German championship in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and the Eurobowl title in 1999 . He was also voted European coach of the year once. For the 2001 season he moved to the rivals of the Lions, the Hamburg Blue Devils, whom he had defeated with Braunschweig in the finals for the German championship in 1998 and 1999 and in the 1999 Eurobowl. In August 2001 Anderson had decidedly denied his move to Hamburg, at the end of October 2001 it was clear that he was drawn to the Elbe. Anderson spoke of "the most difficult decisions in my life" in view of his departure from Braunschweig and his move to the league competitor. The Hamburger Abendblatt described him as an "unexpected lucky catch" for the Blue Devils. With the Hamburg team, Anderson won the final of the German championship again in 2001 with a 31:13 win against his former employer Braunschweig. Anderson received an early contract extension in Hamburg in August 2001 until December 31, 2005. Before that, he had only entered into one-year contracts. At the beginning of July 2002 Anderson was released in Hamburg after several events had led to a rift with the leadership of the Blue Devils. The Blue Devils were behind the salary payments to Anderson by some € 10,000  . At the end of 2002 he was hired by the Berlin Adlers as head coach. In the 2004 season he led Berlin to the German championship title. In 2005 he moved back to the Braunschweig Lions and won the German Bowl again in 2005 and 2006. Since Anderson wanted a new challenge, he moved after the 2006 season to the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes, who had just risen from the GFL2 . He built a strong team and reached the German Bowl in 2008 and 2009 , but lost both. For unknown reasons, he dissolved his contract with the Hurricanes in 2009 two weeks after the lost German Bowl.

In December 2009, Iowa Wesleyan University announced the engagement of Anderson as the new head coach of the college team. There he worked for two years and then took up the post of head coach at Waldorf University in Iowa. He stayed there until 2017. In 2018, he became director of the sports program at Davis County High School, also in Iowa.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GFL.info ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Bowl XXXI: The ultimate football festival of the year !. Accessed December 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gfl.info
  2. ↑ a b c IWC hires Kent Anderson as new head football coach. December 14, 2009, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2000/pdf/20001031.pdf/HAHA20001031lf0000128.pdf
  4. ↑ welt.de A life around the egg. Accessed October 5, 2009.
  5. ^ New York Lions: History. October 30, 2019, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  6. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article471431/Die-Blue-Devils-planen-schon-fuer-die-Zukunft.html
  7. ↑ Welt.de The Blue Devils are already planning for the future. Accessed October 5, 2009.
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article106982685/Ende-eines-wochenlangen-Kleinkriegs.html
  9. ↑ Football101.de ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kent Anderson issues press release. Accessed October 5, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.football101.de
  10. ↑ https://taz.de/!1070838/
  11. ↑ Editor: Berlin Adler win sixth championship title. October 3, 2009, accessed on February 29, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Football101.de ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kent Anderson is the new Head Coach of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes. Accessed October 5, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.football101.de
  13. ↑ Football-Aktuell.de Anderson no longer coach in Kiel. Accessed October 12, 2009.
  14. ^ Waldorf University - 2016 Football Roster. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Kent Anderson: Athletic Manager / Head Football Coach. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  16. ^ Scott Jackson: Anderson returns to Davis County. Retrieved January 23, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Dodge , Iowa