Bio

Lynn Anderson enters her fifth season as UW-Oshkosh’s assistant softball coach.

Anderson has assisted eight UW-Oshkosh players to 14 total all-region honors and eight players to 16 total all-conference awards, including 2015 WIAC Pitcher of the Year Sara Brunlieb and 2016 WIAC Co-Postion Player of the Year Abby Menting. In 2014, a program record-tying five Titans received all-region accolades.

In Anderson's first four seasons, UW-Oshkosh has established new school records in batting average, doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, slugging percentage and fielding percentage.

In 2017, Anderson helped UW-Oshkosh earn its first NCAA Division III postseason appearance since 2008 as the Titans compiled a 33-13 record and achieved the school's first regional championship since 1988. UW-Oshkosh, which received an at-large berth to the Division III Championship, won the UW-La Crosse Regional with a 3-0 record after placing third in the WIAC standings with a 9-5 mark. The Titans established a new WIAC record with 87 doubles and recorded the program's fifth season with at least 30 wins, including the second during Anderson's time with the program.

In the 2016 season, Anderson assisted UW-Oshkosh to a 26-13 record, including a runner-up 10-4 mark in the WIAC. The Titans, who set a program record with 15 triples, matched their best conference finish since 2008, when UW-Oshkosh also placed second in the league standings.

In 2015, Anderson helped UW-Oshkosh to a 30-12 record, including a 12-4 mark in league play, for the Titans' third season with 30 or more victories in school history. The Titans finished third in both the league's regular season standings and the WIAC Championship. UW-Oshkosh, which set school records with 41 home runs and 69 stolen bases, posted its most overall wins since 2008 and the most league victories since 2007.

In her debut season at UW-Oshkosh in 2014, Anderson helped lead the Titans to a 23-11 overall record and an 11-3 mark and third-place finish in the WIAC. UW-Oshkosh also set program records with 76 doubles, a .344 batting average, a .521 slugging percentage, and a .974 fielding percentage.

Anderson spent the 2009 and 2013 seasons as a volunteer assistant for the University of Wisconsin. In 2013, the Badgers set a program record with 44 wins and captured the Big Ten Tournament title.

During 2011, Anderson was a graduate assistant coach at Valparaiso University (Ind.). The Crusaders compiled a 34-21-1 record, which ranks second in school history. Anderson, who specializes in defense, helped Valparaiso mark a .972 fielding percentage in Horizon League play.

A shortstop, Anderson walked on and started 134 games for Wisconsin from 2005-08. She totaled 13 home runs, 71 hits and 35 runs batted in. The Neenah High School graduate was named the Badgers' 2008 Defensive Player of the Year. Anderson helped Wisconsin reach the 2005 NCAA Division I Tournament.

Anderson earned degrees in sociology and criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin in 2008. She received her master's in sports administration from Valparaiso University in 2011.

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