University of Alaska Fairbanks Athletics

2013-14 as a Junior: Capital One First Team Academic All-American At-Large, improving on Second Team status from a year ago...Named to Capital One Academic All-District squad for West Region...GNAC Faculty Athletic Representative's Scholar-Athlete award recipient...ISSF World Championship qualifier...United States air rifle champion at USA Shooting National Championships...Three-time All-American this year, earning NRA Collegiate First Team All-America honors in smallbore and air rifle and taking First Team CRCA All-America laurels...Fourth place in air rifle at NCAA Championships...Patriot Rifle Conference champion in smallbore and runner-up in air rifle...Turned in season-high scores of 596 in air rifle and 591 in smallbore...Averaged 590.8 in air and 584.6 in smallbore.

2012-13 as a Sophomore: Averaged a 586.7 in air rifle and 580.6 in smallbore...Led the Nanooks in air rifle charting a 586 against the University of Nebraska...While shooting against Kentucky University, Anderson led the Nanooks in both events shooting a season-high 587 in smallbore ranking second overall and a 592 in air rifle...Had a team-best score 588 in air rifle in the match against the University of Nevada...Led all shooters with a match high 584 in smallbore and shot a season-high and personal best of 592 in air rifle at NCAA qualifiers...At the NCAA Championships Anderson shot a qualification score of 586 in smallbore and qualified for the finals where he shot high final score 100.0 which placed him fourth overall with an aggreate score of  686.0 and he lead the way for the nanooks with a 589 in air rifle to help the Nanooks finish fourth in the nation...Received All-American First Team in smallbore and Second team air rifle...Received Team's most valuable player award...Named Alaska Nanook's Most Outstanding Male Athlete...Named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division II At-Large Second Team...GNAC Faculty Athletic Representative's Scholar-Athlete.

2011-12 as a Freshman: As a rookie earned NRA All-American Honorable Mention in Smallbore honors...Named to the CRCA All-Academic Team...Averaged 585.2 in air rifle and 576.6 in Smallbore...Totaled a season high 590 twice in air rifle against University of Reno on Oct. 30th, 2011 and at Citadel on Jan. 17th, 2012 ...Charted a season best 586 in smallbore at the NCAA Championships where he led the Nanooks...Also shot 587 in air rifle at the NCAA Championships to help the Nanooks earn a bronze finish. 

Prior To Alaska: Was crowned the 2011 USA Shooting 50 Meter Prone Junior National Champion as a member of the USA National Junior Rifle Team in 2010-11... Was a member of the Three Position Air Rifle National Junior Olympic Championship team with the Arlington-Optimist Acorns Junior rifle team...Virginia State Three Position Rifle Junior Champion from 2009-11...Virginia State Air Rifle Junior Champion from 2009-10...His junior career best performances include an air rifle score of 589/600, three-position score of 1155/1200 and prone score of 595/600...He was a member of the National Honor Society from 2009-11, the Music Honor Society from 2009-11 and the French Honor Society from 2009-10.

Personal: Son of Joe and Lisa Anderson...Favorite pastimes include playing music on the piano, guitar or bass and photography...Majoring in biology and minoring in music.