University of Minnesota Athletics
John Anderson Named ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year
7/22/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Anderson became the first coach in Big Ten history to claim Conference Coach of the Year honors in three consecutive seasons. He has won the honor in four of the last five seasons, claiming it in 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
He guided the Golden Gophers to their third straight Big Ten regular season title with a 21-10 conference record. He has also led Minnesota to 45 wins the last two seasons, which is the best two-year win total in the history of the Big Ten. Minnesota won the Big Ten title by two games this season, claiming it in the last game of a 31-game schedule.
After 23 seasons at Minnesota, Anderson has a 838-516-3 record. He has guided Minnesota to 22 30-win seasons and seven 40-win seasons. Anderson has also guided the Golden Gophers to eight Big Ten tournament titles and four Big Ten regular season titles. This season was the first time in the program's history that they captured regular-season and Big Ten conference titles.
Individually, Minnesota had nine players named to Big Ten All-Conference teams, Glen Perkins was named a Second-Team All-American and Mike Mee was named a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American (the fifth player in four years to do so for Minnesota).
Anderson also helped guide his team to excellence off the field as Andy Hunter received Second-Team Academic All-American honors, and the Golden Gophers topped the Big Ten with nine Academic All-Big Ten honorees.
