HEAD COACH: BRIAN ANDERSON
YEARS AT BURKE: 16 (6th as Girls Varsity coach, 10 years as JV Boys coach)
RECORD AT BURKE: 42-70 .375 (as girls Varsity coach)
56-47 .513 (as JV boys coach)
56-47 .513 (as JV boys coach)
BIOGRAPHY:
Brian Anderson was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska and started his soccer career in 1986 for the Millard Star Soccer Association. He continued playing during his younger years for Millard Star and the Southwest YMCA. Brian also played soccer at Millard South High School (Omaha, NE) and graduated in 1998.
After high school, Brian attended Dana College (Blair, NE) and studied art. At that time, Dana only had a club level soccer team. During his Sophomore year, there were developments that led to Men's Soccer becoming a varsity sport. Brian was part of the inagural Men's Varsity team at Dana College in the fall of 2000. That initial team, built of only 18 players, started strong at 6-1 and struggled through major injuries to a 6-11 first season. Dana went on to make the GPAC tournament the first 2 years of the program. Brian ended his 3 year college career after the fall of 2002 season, finishing with the highest GPA on the team in addition to 7 goals and 5 assists in NAIA play.
Brian started his teaching career at Burke High School (Omaha, NE) in the 2003-2004 school year. He started coaching boys soccer at Burke in the spring of 2004. He was the head JV boys coach and assistant boys varsity coach until the fall of 2013 when he became the Girls Varsity head coach. Brian went gone 6-6 in each of his first 4 years as the JV boys coach, and in 2007 finally beat Millard North in the first round of the Millard North JV Tournament to knock them out of their own competition. He has led the JV team to impressive wins over Westside, Millard West, Millard North, Creighton Prep, Lincoln East, Omaha South, and Omaha Central in his 10 year coaching career.
Brian also was a pioneer in helping create the EIGHTS summer high school soccer league in 2004. The EIGHTS has been a part of Omaha area high school summer soccer ever since and is still going strong.
After high school, Brian attended Dana College (Blair, NE) and studied art. At that time, Dana only had a club level soccer team. During his Sophomore year, there were developments that led to Men's Soccer becoming a varsity sport. Brian was part of the inagural Men's Varsity team at Dana College in the fall of 2000. That initial team, built of only 18 players, started strong at 6-1 and struggled through major injuries to a 6-11 first season. Dana went on to make the GPAC tournament the first 2 years of the program. Brian ended his 3 year college career after the fall of 2002 season, finishing with the highest GPA on the team in addition to 7 goals and 5 assists in NAIA play.
Brian started his teaching career at Burke High School (Omaha, NE) in the 2003-2004 school year. He started coaching boys soccer at Burke in the spring of 2004. He was the head JV boys coach and assistant boys varsity coach until the fall of 2013 when he became the Girls Varsity head coach. Brian went gone 6-6 in each of his first 4 years as the JV boys coach, and in 2007 finally beat Millard North in the first round of the Millard North JV Tournament to knock them out of their own competition. He has led the JV team to impressive wins over Westside, Millard West, Millard North, Creighton Prep, Lincoln East, Omaha South, and Omaha Central in his 10 year coaching career.
Brian also was a pioneer in helping create the EIGHTS summer high school soccer league in 2004. The EIGHTS has been a part of Omaha area high school summer soccer ever since and is still going strong.
