Vince Anderson

Vince Anderson has coached 34 years at the NCAA Division 1 level and has extensive experience coaching World Championship and Olympic athletes since 1995. Anderson is a devoted recruiter, analyst, coach and teacher.

Most recently, Anderson trained Phyllis Francis, 2017 World Champion at 400 meters and World 4×400 gold medalist (’17, ’19) and also trained Jessica Beard, 4×400 double gold medalist at the 2019 World Championships (4×400, mixed 4×400). He has coaches a number of athletes to NCAA and US national titles including Leonard Scott, Jabari Greer, Justin Gatlin, Gary Kikaya, tom Pappas, and Muna Lee.

Anderson coached for 15 years at Texas A&M, where he trained women sprinters and both men and women hurdlers, since 2005. During that span, the Aggies won 9 NCAA outdoor titles (5 men, 4 women) and one NCAA indoor title (Men, 2017).

Before coaching at Texas A&M University, Anderson coached 16 balanced years at the University of Tennessee. Starting at Tennessee in the summer of 1988, Anderson first coached women’s sprints and hurdles for 8 years through 1996, then followed with another 8 year stint as the men’s sprints, hurdles and jumps coach, through the 2004 season. The Vols won the NCAA outdoor title in 2001 and the NCAA indoor crown in 2002. Anderson has trained 32 NCAA champions, including every sprint, hurdle and relay event

Anderson began his coaching career as a volunteer for the legendary Coach Tom Tellez at the University of Houston. During those three invaluable seasons at UH, Anderson was able to watch the daily training of several notable champions, through the 1988 Olympic Trials. The bio-mechanical principles learned from Coach Tellez formed a vital foundation which influences Anderson’s work to this day.