Shenandoah University Men's Baseball

Introduced as Shenandoah University's fourth full-time baseball coach in July 2003, Kevin Anderson has brought Shenandoah University baseball to new heights in his time at SU. Since the start of the 2009 season, SU has won nearly 450 games, four regular season titles in the USA South and Old Dominion conferences and championships in both the USA South and ODAC (2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2026) as well as four regional titles. In 2009 and 2010, Anderson was named as Coach of the Year by both the American Baseball Coaches Association and the Virginia State Sports Information Directors. Those four Coach of the Year honors are four of 10 that Anderson has earned since 2009.  The latest came in 2023 as the ODAC coaches voted him as the league's Coach of the Year for the third time since 2014. Anderson led his Hornets to a 34-win regular season, a high ranking of No. 2 in the nation and the No. 1 spot in the regional rankings. Anderson's squad followed up that CoY accolade by capturing its fourth-ever regional title by sweeping Christopher Newport on Championship Sunday of the Winchester Regional. Anderson's squad completed its season with a program-record 42 victories. In 2022, his CoY award came from the Virginia State Sports Information Directors Association. Anderson led his Hornets to a 37-12-1 record in '22 and to the squad's third ODAC title in the past four seasons of championship play. SU also hosted its first-ever NCAA regional and advanced to the championship game of that four-team pod. His 2021 CoY honor, from the Mid-Atlantic Scouts Association, brings the total number of organizations to recognize Anderson as a Coach of the Year to five. The ODAC named him CoY in 2014 and 2017, the USA South in 2011, the ABCA in 2009 and 2010, and the Virginia State Sports Information Directors in 2009 and 2010. In 2014, his earned his first ODAC CoY honor after Anderson led his Hornets to a 17-3 record in league play and earned the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. He was selected again as the ODAC CoY in 2017 and 2023. In 2011, on the eve of the team leaving for Burlington, N.C. to defend its USA South Conference Tournament title, Anderson picked up his first ever USA South Conference Coach of the Year award. The award comes on the heels of the team's first-ever regular season title and a No. 1 national ranking by both D3baseball.com and the ABCA. Anderson led the Hornets to their first regional title in 10 seasons in 2019 by working their way through the loser’s bracket of the Union, New Jersey Regional. On the final day of the tourney, SU downed host Kean, 6-4 and 4-1, to win the title and advance to the first-ever Division III Super Regional. Anderson is the former head baseball coach at James Madison University and came to Shenandoah after five years as a teacher at Warren County High School in Front Royal, Virginia. The Winchester native was the head baseball coach at Warren County for all five years of his tenure there and the head football coach for the final three years. Anderson increased the success level in both programs during his time with the ‘Cats; the football program rose from 28th in Region II to 10th while the 1999 baseball team made its first regional appearance in more than a decade. In 2004, Anderson guided Shenandoah University to its second-best baseball season ever. The Hornets were 23-20 and won a then-school-record 11 straight non-conference games that spring despite having just 17 healthy players for most of the season. Anderson backed up that campaign with a 23-19 record in 2005. The Hornets defeated the regular season champions from the USA South, the ODAC and the MAC Commonwealth and set a new school record with eight conference victories. In 2006, Anderson's Hornets improved to 25 overall victories and a sixth place finish in the always tough USA South. SU went into the final weekend of that regular season with a chance to tie for the title. In the spring of 2007, Anderson led his team to another second-best-in-school-history finish - SU won 27 games and once again headed into the final weekend of conference play with a shot at the regular season title. 2009 brought the breakthrough season that everybody was hoping for - Anderson's club set a new school record for wins in a season, was ranked in the nation for the first time since 2000 and made an appearance in the USA South Conference Tournament championship game. Shenandoah continued that run by winning the Salisbury Regional in mid-May and earned its first-ever trip to Appleton, Wisconsin for an appearance in the 2009 NCAA Championships. On the eve of that first appearance, it was announced that Anderson had been named the ABCA South Region Coach of the Year. In 2010, the Hornets backed up the stellar '09 campaign by winning the USA South Conference Tournament and sweeping through the Fayetteville (South) Regional to make the return trip to Appleton. Anderson's club also was ranked in the nation's Top 25 all season long in both the ABCA and D3baseball.com polls. On the eve of the team's departure for Appleton, Anderson was again named as the ABCA South Region Coach of the Year. He is the second SU coach to be earn a Coach of the Year honor in consecutive seasons. In 2011, the team earned its first-ever USA South Conference regular season title, winning 11 of 12 regular season games in the league, and was ranked in the top five of both the D3baseball.com and ABCA polls all season. The Hornets spent four weeks ranked No. 1 in the D3baseball.com poll, a first in the school history. The program's first-ever ODAC title, also the first for the school, came in 2015. Anderson's Hornets raced to the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament with a 16-4 league mark, winning the pennant by two games, before winning four of five games at the annual tournament to claim the title. Shenandoah backed up that first-ever ODAC title by earning the No. 1 seed for the 2016 tournament with a 15-5 league mark. The Hornets ended the year by advancing to the South Region championship game. In 2016, Anderson also achieved a personal milestone with by recording victory No. 500 as a college head coach. Anderson got to the mark with a 7-4 victory over Case Western Reserve on February 21. In 2018, he hit the 600 win plateau with an ODAC victory over Washington and Lee. Heading into the 2018 ODAC Tournament as the fourth seed, the Hornets swept fifth-seeded Hampden-Sydney in the opening best-of-three series before taking out No. 1 Randolph-Macon, No. 2 Virginia Wesleyan and No. 3 Roanoke to earn the program's second-ever ODAC title. 2019 brought the program’s second consecutive, and third-ever, ODAC title as SU again won the tournament with a 5-1 record. The Hornets are the first team to repeat as ODAC champions in 15 years as Shenandoah swept sixth-seeded Hampden-Sydney in the opening round before defeating No. 2 Roanoke, and No. 1 Randolph-Macon (twice) to win the crown. The 2022 title came in undefeated fashion as SU dispatched seventh-seeded Hampden-Sydney in the opening round before defeating Bridgewater once and Roanoke twice on championship weekend. The squad hosted its first-ever regional the next weekend and advanced to the championship game of that four-team pod. From 1994-97, Anderson won nearly 150 games and had two CAA Tournament championship appearances at JMU. His 1995 team was an NCAA Tournament participant and the Dukes had the second highest RPI improvement in the nation behind Rice University. A 1979 graduate of Frederick County's James Wood H.S., Anderson coached both the Winchester Royals and the New Market Rebels in the Valley League. Winchester won the 1990 pennant under Anderson's direction. In October 2005, Anderson was inducted into the James Wood Hall of Fame. He became the fourth member of the SU coaching staff to be inducted into a hall of fame. In the summer of 2018, Anderson was inducted into the Valley Baseball League Hall of Fame in recognition of both his playing career (with the Winchester Royals) as well as serving as the skipper of both the Royals and the New Market Rebels. Anderson's club is also heavily involved in the community and has been honored by the Frederick County (Va.) School Board for its work with area youth. Anderson has also won the university's Wilkins Award, for excellence in service, on two occasions. He is one of two members of the athletic department to win the award more than one time. Anderson and his wife, Ginger, are the parents of two boys: Kolton and Kooper, and a daughter, Khloe. Kooper is a member of the SU class of 2023 and the Hornets baseball program. *Until the 2013 season, Shenandoah was a member of the USA South Conference. The Hornets joined the ODAC for the 2013 season. Year School Overall League* Place Notes 1994 JMU 40-19-1 11-7 2nd CAA Tournament Runner-Up 1995 42-17 14-4 1st CAA Regular Season Champion 1996 34-25 9-11 6th CAA Tournament Runner-Up 1997 31-26 10-10 3rd 2004 SU 23-20 7-14 8th 2005 23-19 8-10 7th 2006 25-18 7-11 6th 2007 27-15 5-7 6th 2008 20-20 5-7 5th 2009 38-10 5-5 T3rd USA South Tournament Runner-Up, NCAA World Series Berth 2010 38-10 8-4 T2nd USA South Tournament Champions, NCAA World Series Berth 2011 37-7 11-1 1st USA South Regular Season Champions, Tournament Runner-Up, NCAA Regional Berth, ODAC Coach of the Year 2012 31-13 8-4 2nd USA South Tournament Runner-Up, NCAA Regional Berth 2013 27-12 13-7 T2nd First Season in ODAC 2014 33-11 17-3 1st ODAC Regular Season Champions, Tournament Runner-up, NCAA Regional Berth, ODAC Coach of the Year 2015 28-10-1 16-4 1st ODAC Regular Season Champions, Tournament Champions, NCAA Regional Berth 2016 35-12 15-5 1st ODAC Regular Season Champions, NCAA Regional Berth 2017 41-10 16-4 T1st  ODAC Regular Season Co-Champions, NCAA Regional Berth, ODAC Coach of the Year 2018 35-12 14-6 4th  ODAC Tournament Champions, NCAA Regional Berth 2019 35-15 13-9 T3rd  ODAC Tournament Champions, NCAA Super Regional Berth 2020 10-2 2-0 COVID, Season Canceled After March 12 2021 31-11 17-5 4th ODAC Tournament Runner-Up 2022 37-12-1 14-5-1 2nd ODAC Tournament Champions, NCAA Regional Berth 2023 42-10 18-4 2nd ODAC Tournament Runner-Up, NCAA Super Regional Berth, ODAC Coach of the Year 2024 28-17 14-8 3rd 2025 28-17 14-8 3rd 2026 37-12 13-7 2nd ODAC Tournament Champions, NCAA Regional Berth Totals JMU 147-87-1 44-32 Totals SU 709-295-2 260-138-1 Overall 856-382-3 304-170-1

Former pitching great Nick Sborz '06 continues his role as an assistant coach on Kevin Anderson's staff. This is Sborz' second stint with the program. After serving as an assistant coach for the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Sborz moved on to Skyline H.S. as the head coach from 2008 through 2010. He returned in 2011 to assist with the junior varsity program and took over Head JV (now developmental) duties in the fall of 2013. ###

Former George Mason University standout Chris Jenkins is heading into his fourth season as an assistant coach for the SU baseball program.  Jenkins comes to Shenandoah after serving as the head baseball coach at Anne Arundel Community College from 2016 to 2020. AACC qualified for the Region XX playoffs in both 2017 and 2018 and advanced to the Final Four in 2017. Additionally, he mentored two NJCAA Academic All-America honorees during his four seasons with the program. Prior to Anne Arundel, Jenkins served as an assistant coach at Annapolis (Maryland) High School and as a site director and lead instructor for the US Baseball Academy. Jenkins is the son of Lew Jenkins, who was the head baseball coach at St. Mary's College of Maryland for more than 40 years. Jenkins' wife, Susan, is employed at Shenandoah University as the Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications. With the Hornets, Jenkins is involved with all aspects of the program and works most closely with the developmental program. ###

Drew Crawford has been announced as an assistant coach for the baseball team.  Crawford returns to Shenandoah after graduating in 2008, and being a utility player in the infield from 2004 – 2008 under head coach Kevin Anderson.    In 2008, Crawford was named a team captain, as well as the recipient of two team awards, the Daniel J. Ziccardy Student Athlete Winner and the Irene Schutt Most Inspirational Award.   Crawford has nine years of coaching experience with six years coming as a head coach at North Hagerstown High School.  Crawford boasts a 78-51 career record, two region titles, and was named the 2013 Herald-Mail Coach of the Year.   Crawford currently resides in Smithsburg, Maryland with his wife Jessica and children Caius, Canaan, Callum, and Camryn.  Crawford just completed his 14th year as a teacher in the Washington County Public School District.    Effectively immediately, Crawford will start recruiting and then work with the infielders once the team gets back on campus.   #GoSUHornets