Tom Anderson Coaching Bio
Tom Anderson
18UAA Head Coach
Phone: 713.875.7778
Hometown: Indianapolis, Indiana
Current Residence: Needville, TX
Coaching History:
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2023/24 - Head Coach Houston Junior Aeros 16A.
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2022/23 - Head Coach Apollo 18UV.
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2021/22 - Head Coach Houston Wild 18UAA.
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2019/20 - 2020/21 Assistant Coach Houston Wild 18UAA.
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2016/17 - 2020/21 Assistant Coach Ridge Point Varsity Ice Hockey.
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2007 - 2015 Head Coach- Mighty Mites, Mites, Squirt, Pee Wee (Sugar Land Ice & Sports) and Junior Varsity (ISHL).
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2004/5- 2006/7 Head Coach Dulles Elkins Hightower Varsity.2000 - 2004 Head Coach, Bantam Aerodrome Sugar Land.
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1996 - 2021 Aerodrome/Sugar Land Ice & Sports “Learn to Play” program and Aerodrome/Sugar Land Ice & Sports Hockey Academy program
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1996 - 2000 Head Coach, beginning with Pee-Wee and following the age group to Bantam and Midget, Aerodrome Sugar Land.
Additional Coaching- USA Hockey Checking Clinic Lead Coach; Palmer Hockey Assistant; Sugar Land Imperials Prospect Skate Evaluator, tryout camp evaluator, and practice coach; Varsity Select Tournament Team Head Coach; Varsity Select and Junior Varsity Select Team Head Coach; Aerodrome Sugar Land/Sugar Land Ice& Sports spring/summer Head Coach from 1996 – present.
Highlights: 2006 Interscholastic Hockey League (ISHL) Varsity Coach of the Year, 2018 Varsity Select Head Coach Tournament Champion team Dallas Stars High School Shootout & 18U Tournament Champions, 2005 Dulles Elkins Hightower Head Coach JV Champions, 2018 ISHL Varsity Champions Ridge Point Assistant Coach
Coach Tom Anderson is a retired career Firefighter/Paramedic and current Adjunct Faculty with San Jacinto College Fire Technology program. Coach Anderson lived in Jennison, Michigan where he learned to skate and was introduced to the sport of hockey on the ponds and rivers native to the area. When he moved with his parents to the Fort Bend County area around the age of 13, he thought seeing ice or ice hockey again would only be during periodic visits to family in the Indianapolis area. When the Aerodrome in Sugar Land was constructed and hockey programs were implemented, Tom was able to play, coach and referee the sport he loved as a kid; now as an adult. His love for coaching was influenced as his father was a NCAA football, baseball and swimming coach during his youth in Indiana and Michigan. In addition to coaching, Coach Anderson still plays adult league hockey, is a life-long golfer, enjoys Gulf inshore and offshore fishing with his son, is an avid automotive enthusiast and amateur motorcycle road racer. Coach Anderson also serves as the USA Hockey/TAHA Region Player Safety Coordinator. His son is a Houston Wild alumnus who now plays hockey at Western Michigan University of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
USA Hockey Coach Certification: Level 4
Favorite Quotes –
- “Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.” - Phil Esposito
- “Learn from everyone and everything, good things and not, and apply the best qualities to who you want to be. Remember the negative things and work to not repeat them. Finally, never stop being a student.” - Ron Dille
