Wayne D. Anderson

Baseball

The baseball team won the inaugural Big Sky title in 1964,^[13] and again in 1966, led by starting pitchers Bill Stoneman and Frank Reberger. The 1966 team was 31–7 in the regular season and made the NCAA tournament for the first time;^[14][15] the Vandals eliminated Colorado State College and Air Force with three straight victories on the road in Greeley, Colorado.^[16] One step from the College World Series in Omaha, the Vandals fell 3–2 and 8–5 to Arizona in Tucson in the District 7 finals, today's "super-regionals" (sweet 16).^[17] Idaho finished the season at 34–9 (.791) and Anderson was named Big Sky baseball coach of the year.^[1][18]

Basketball

That September, Anderson was promoted to head coach in basketball, and stopped coaching baseball.^[19][20] While head baseball coach, he had been an assistant in basketball for eight years under the previous four head coaches. In his second season in 1968, he was named conference coach of the year.^[2] In 1971, he took on additional duties as assistant athletic director.^[21] After his eighth season as head basketball coach, Anderson resigned both positions in March 1974 and stopped coaching at age 43.^[22][23] He returned to the university in 1982 as the assistant athletic director,^[24] and stayed for another dozen years, retiring in December 1994.^[25][26]

Anderson was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame^[24][27] and the University of Idaho's Athletic Hall of Fame.^[28]

Basketball