Anderson helps team win national title

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, Arkansas.

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

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.