Frank Anderson (baseball coach)
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Frank Anderson is the current head baseball coach at Oklahoma State. His team won the 2004 Big 12 Tournament. In 2005, his team went 34-25, including a major upset over the top ranked Texas Longhorns. In 2006, OSU went 41-20, and earned a number 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. His program reached a national ranking of 12th during a season where they were supposed to struggle.
He is a pitching coach, who previously coached at Texas. He is regarded as one of the nation's finest pitching coaches, and his teams rank high statistically in those categories. From 1990 to 1999, he served as the pitching coach at Texas Tech. He graduated from Emporia State in 1983.
A native of Grant, Neb., Anderson graduated from Emporia State in Kansas in 1983 and received his master’s degree from the school in 1985. Prior to attending ESU, Anderson was a junior college All-American at Mid-Plains Junior College in North Platte, Neb., and then an All-District and All-Area outfielder at Kearney State, an NAIA baseball powerhouse located in Nebraska.
Upon completing his bachelor's degree in physical education, Anderson began his coaching career at Emporia State while working on his master's in science with an emphasis in exercise physiology. He helped the Hornets reach the 1984 NAIA World Series and then accepted the assistant coaching position at Howard Junior College in Big Spring, Texas in 1987. Once there, Anderson became an integral part of constructing one of the nation's top junior college programs. Over his three seasons, the Hawks not only ranked among the top 20 junior colleges in the country, but also had 26 of Anderson’s pupils drafted by major league clubs.
In 1991, Howard claimed the Junior College World Series title with a team primarily recruited by its former assistant coach, who had left at the beginning of that season to join Larry Hays' staff at Texas Tech as the club's pitching instructor.
Frank and his wife Sandra have two children: an 19-year old son, Brett, who is a pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization, and a nine-year old daughter, Katelyn.
