USD Men's Tennis 2008-2009

David Anderton 2nd YEAR AS INTERIM HEAD COACH

David Anderton is in his second year as USD's interim head coach. Last year he was named interim men's tennis head coach at USO for the 2007-08 season while former head coach Tom Hagedorn was battling leukemia. Hagedorn recently lost his courageous battle on March 21, 2009. For the 2007-08 season, Anderton guided the Toreros to a 12-11 record and final national ranking of 57th. During the 2007-08 campaign Anderton coached two players that advanced to the NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Individual Championships - senior Thomas Liversage and freshman Dean Jackson. Liv– ersage finished with a national ranking of 53rd, while Jackson finished at 66th in the final ITA national rankings.Jackson was tabbed the WCC Freshman of the Year and joined Liversage on the AII-WCC First Team for singles. Liversage teamed with Chris Coetzee in doubles and were tabbed AII-WCC 1st team doubles. Anderton came to USO from the University of Miami where he was assistant coach for the Hurricane women's program for four years. In 2007 he was named the NCAA Division I ITA Women's Assistant Coach of the Year after the team finished 22-7 overall and reached the NCAA quarterfinals. He played a key role in the development and success of Audra Cohen who would go on to win the 2007 NCAA si ngles title. Additionally, he was tabbed the 2007 ITA Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year. During his four years with the Hurricanes, Anderton collaborated with head coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews in the essential development of the Miami women's tennis program to be– come one of the forefront teams in colleg iate tennis.Miami reached the NCAATeam Cham– pionships with the assistance of Anderton in each of his four years with the program. In 2006 the team reached the finals, and after their impressive showing at the NCAA Tour– nament, finished with an overall record of 24-7. Miami finished fourth in the final Fila Collegiate Tennis Rankings.Miami was consistently ranked among the top ten teams in the country over Anderton's four seasons. During Miami's impressive run to the NCAA finals of 2006, Anderton helped the Miami women's tennis team defeat both No. 2 Notre Dame and No.3 Southern California in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.The Hurricanes reached the finals of NCAA tournament for the first time since the 1986 season. Prior to joining the Miami staff, Anderton spent two seasons (1999-2001) as the wom– en's assistant coach at the University at Alabama. During his time with the Crimson Tide, An– derton coached Emmanuelle Berard and helped her gain a top-30 national ranking and berth into the NCAA Tournament as a freshman . He also helped direct Alabama from an unranked program at the beginn ing of the season to a final national ranking of 26th in 2001 . Anderton also worked as an assistant coach for the men's and women's tennis programs at Western Mich igan University from 1998-99. He helped guide both programs to conference titles and NCAA appearances for first time in program history. Anderton played tennis for four years at Bowling Green where he was co-captain and named to the Dean's list from 1997-98. He earned a degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Bowling Green in 1998. Upon graduation he was the all-time leader in singles and doubles wins in Bowl ing Green history. Anderton was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada .