Ross Anderson, the Assistant Soccer Coach at Ranger College, has been a great addition to the Ranger College Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams

Ross Anderson, the Assistant Soccer Coach at Ranger College, has been a great addition to the Ranger College Men's and Women's Soccer teams. Coming to Texas from Scottland, by way of Kansas, Coach Anderson brings skills from a land where soccer is a way of life.

Spending four years at Ottawa University (KS) playing for the Braves, he earned Second Team All-KCAC honors in only his second year there.

Coach Anderson was brought to Ranger College by Soccer Head Coach Julio Guerrero. He was brought in for his skill, his temperament, and his ability to relate to players. It was a great match for RC Soccer.

In speaking with Coach Anderson about what he was most looking forward to when he was asked to come to Ranger College, he said he was "looking forward to a new challenge and to be around the NJCAA D1 level. I had a lot of experience recruiting at this level in the past. I was very impressed with the level of players coming from junior college and wanted to experience it for myself after my time at USM which is a 4-year university. I was also very much looking forward to working with coach Guerrero as he told me of his plans for the program and what the future was going to look like and I was all on board with the vision and where the men's and women's soccer teams were heading!" 

As a coach, Anderson is not one to let his players slide. "I expect our players to work hard on and off the field at all times and do everything that they are involved with to the best of their abilities. I also expect them to have respect for themselves and others and to hold the standards and expectations that are being set by the coaching staff and themselves to the highest possible caliber. I also expect our players to be coachable, and willing to learn so that we can work towards our common goals and ultimately help each other win championships, help them graduate with good grades, and move on to a 4-year school after their time with us."

Coach Anderson recognizes his coaching style may be a bit inexperienced, but he is not letting this slow him down. When asked about his coaching style, he noted "I am a mixture of many different coaches which I have seen and respected in my career and have added them all together to have my philosophy. I feel my coaching style is calm but also direct in terms of what I expect from my players, and how I feel they should behave and act at practice and around campus. I also feel that to be an effective coach, I must understand my players in terms of their personalities and who they are as people so that I can get them to perform at their maximum potential. Overall, I am a younger coach and still have a lot to learn, and at Ranger, there are a lot of successful coaches that I can observe and add more to my philosophy going forward." 

Coach Anderson says he is happy to be here. We are privileged to have him.