Men's Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- bridget.anderson@csun.edu
- Phone:
- 3242
Bridget Anderson is entering her 12th season on the Track & Field coaching staff in 2017. She is in charge of the Matador pole vaulters and multi-events student-athletes, and is the teams' strength and conditioning coach for the sprinters, jumpers and multi-event athletes. She is also in charge of monitoring the team’s academic progress and is a major part of the recent success the program has achieved. Â
In her 11 seasons, Anderson has helped the Matadors win a total of 10Â Big West team championships between the men's and women's programs. Anderson has had a great deal of success in each and every season coaching all-conference performers in the pole vault and multi-events.
Conference champions coached by Anderson include pole vault titles by Krystal Quinn in 2008 and Tiana Webberley in 2010 and 2011. LaShana Verdon won a Big West muti-event title in 2006 followed by Sherrina Lofton in both 2009 and 2011 and Robert Robinson in 2010. Olympia Jewett is the latest heptathlete to win under Anderson's guidance, she took home the Big West Championship in 2015. Lofton and Justin Johnson each earned All-American honors in the multi-events, and earned multiple NCAA Championship berths.
Anderson has also coached three all-conference performers in the javelin, including Lance Gonzales' Big West championship in 2009. In her time at CSUN, Anderson has coached several All-Americans, NCAA National and Regional qualifiers and Big West Conference champions. Her student-athletes have won numerous academic awards, including earning the highest GPA for a CSUN student-athlete.
A 2004 graduate of UCLA, Anderson came to CSUN after serving the 2004-05 season as the head track & field coach at Hoover High School in Glendale, CA, her alma mater. Before that, Anderson was the head cross country coach at Hoover during the 2003-04 season.
The former Bridget Pearson competed in the javelin and pole vault at UCLA from 1999-2004. One of her career highlights was winning the Irish National Championships in 2000 in the pole vault. At Hoover High School, she was an All-American in the pole vault all four years and the California state champion in 1997. She claimed the CIF title in 1999 and went on to finish fourth at nationals. Anderson also competed in volleyball and water polo at Hoover before graduating in 1999.
Anderson earned her Master's Degree with Honors in Public Administration from CSUN in 2017.
Anderson married former Matador head coach Avery Anderson in 2009. The couple have a son, Andy, and a daughter, Avery.
