Anderson helps team win national championship

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — A 1987 Coleridge High School graduate is on coaching staff for a football team that just won a national championship for the second year in a row.

Brant Anderson is an assistant coach for the Iowa Western Community College football team that crushed East Mississippi 61-14 in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division 1 championship game.

The IWCC team finished the season with a 12-1 record after the blowout Dec. 13 victory in Little Rock, Ark.

This is the third national championship for Iowa Western (2023, 2022, 2012).

The Reivers have earned a reputation of being one of the best junior college programs in the entire country. The school also has a solid reputation of sending players on to play Division I football.

Anderson, the son of former Coleridge residents Glenn and Deanna Anderson, was a member of the Coleridge Bulldogs team and then played football at Midland College in Fremont.

Anderson, a fullback on the Warrior football team, was inducted into the Midland Athletic Hall of Fame as an individual athlete in 2010.