Justin Anderson

Justin Anderson is a college football coach and former player. He played wide receiver at Brigham Young University from 2000 to 2002 after starting his collegiate career at Ricks College (1995, 1998-99), leaving for two years to serve as a full-time missionary in San Antonio, Texas, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He was a part of the 2001 Mountain West Conference championship squad that went on to compete in the Liberty Bowl. Anderson earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from BYU in 2002 and obtained his master’s in communication from there in 2012. He was named to the Mountain West Conference all-academic team as a junior at BYU.

He broke into the coaching ranks as the offensive coordinator at Harmony High School in St. Cloud, Fla., from 2004 to 2007. He worked as a graduate assistant coach at BYU for the 2009 season after serving an internship with the Cougar football program in 2008.

From 2010 to 2015, Anderson was an assistant coach at Nicholls State serving as the passing game coordinator, coaching wide receivers and tight ends and working as the NFL liaison. He assumed the position of assistant head coach during his third season with the Colonels. He served as the recruiting coordinator and director of player personnel at BYU in 2015. He moved to the University of Virginia when Bronco Mendenhall was named the head coach in 2016.

In early 2022, Anderson was named director of player personnel and recruiting at East Carolina University. In May 2022, BYU head coach Kalani Sitake named Anderson as director of player personnel at BYU.

Anderson and his wife, Anne, have six children.