Destini Anderson has guided the East Central University softball program to three straight winning seasons after taking over as head coach in the summer of 2006.
She will be heading into her seventh season at the helm in 2013.
Anderson led the Lady Tigers to their first winning season, under her direction, in 2010 as they went 34-21 and landed a berth in the Lone Star Conference Tournament Championship game, before falling to nationally-ranked Angelo State.
In 2011, Anderson’s ECU squad went 38-16 and reached the LSC Tournament finals again before falling to West Texas A&M.
Then in 2012, the Lady Tigers finished 27-18 and took third in the new Great American Conference regular season while coaching GAC Player of the Year Emily Kennemer, who also picked up a Daktronics All-Region award and a Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-America honor.
Anderson has a career 143-141-1 record as ECU head coach. She is only the second head coach in program’s history, replacing Ron Miller, who retired in July of 2006.
Anderson, a native of Minco, is coming off an impressive run from 2003-06 as the head softball coach at Canyon High School (Texas), where she guided the squad to a 72-33 record in three seasons, including the school’s first two district titles and regional appearances in the program’s history.
Prior to coaching at Canyon, Anderson served as graduate assistant coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, where she performed numerous tasks such as developing an off-season strength and conditioning program, conducting individual workouts for pitchers and catchers and organizing team practices to name a few.
Anderson is a 2001 graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University where she garnered several awards and set numerous school records. She was inducted into the OBU Athletic Hall of Fame in November of 2009.
She was named OBU’s Senior Female Athlete of the Year in 2001 and served as captain of the Lady Bison softball team.
Anderson holds OBU career records for most strikeouts (473) as a pitcher, hits as a batter (213), runs batted in (146), runs scored (133) and doubles (49).
Also, she owns Lady Bison season records for doubles (15), walks as a batter (28), games pitched (42), complete games (31), innings pitched (229) and strikeouts (210).
Anderson has also served as a softball camp counselor since 1997 and has conducted individual pitching lessons from 1996 to present.
She received her bachelor’s of science in sports medicine degree from OBU with a minor in psychology. She also has a master’s of education in health and physical education degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State.
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