ABOUT.

Welcome to Justin Anderson Basketball Training and Development, also, Owner of Southwest Basketball Academy, Coach Anderson provides professional basketball instruction and mentorship to individuals of all ages and all skill levels. Coach Anderson has created a basketball program to help train and develop players on fundamental drills to improve their shooting, ball handling, passing, and footwork. While teaching the fundamentals of the game, life skills and core values are incorporated to help basketball players identify and understand his or her full potential as an individual and as a student-athlete on as well as off– the court.

For 14 years, Coach Anderson has successfully recruited, mentored, and developed hundreds of student-athletes at the high school as well as the NCAA Division II and NJCAA collegiate levels. He has a strong reputation of teaching fundamentals and has helped over 25 student-athletes receive athletic scholarships to four-year institutions.

Coach Anderson holds an M.Ed. in Physical Education and Health from Salem University in Salem, WV. As a player, Anderson, a Naples FL native, attended Barron Collier High School where he was a proliferate scorer and set numerous school records to include most three-point shots made in a single game— 11 total and 42 points in only three quarters of play.

At the collegiate level, he played basketball at Seminole State College of Florida and later finished his playing career at Palm Beach Atlantic University (NCAA Division II), where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Sport Management. Presently, Coach Anderson resides in Central Florida, with his wife Renee and three children— Maddux, Nellie, and Addie.

Accomplishments include:

• Coached 14 years at the high school and collegiate levels
• Nine years of coaching and recruitment at the NCAA Division II & NJCAA collegiate levels
• Founding owner and president of the Southwest Florida Basketball Academy
• Accomplished collegiate head coach overall record— 97-40 in five seasons.
• Won back-to-back Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference Championships in 2014 and 2015
• Awarded NJCAA Region XX Coach of the Year in 2014
• Won the 2014 NJCAA Region XX District 14 Championship
• Led WVU Potomac State College, in 2014, to its first National Tournament appearance in 37 years and finished 9th overall in the country in NJCAA Division II in 2014
• Coached WVU Potomac State College’s basketball program when it was ranked nationally four out five years in the NJCAA Division II Top 20 Polls
• Helped develop the ninth leading scorer in the NJCAA Division II in 2014
• Successfully helped 25 players receive athletic scholarships to four-year institutions
• Completed a 33-day coaching & playing tour of the People’s Republic of China. While there, he conducted many camps and clinics throughout different provinces throughout China.
• Camp Instructor at Five Star Basketball Camp at Robert Morris University, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, from 2009-2014
• Camp Instructor at the University of Wisconsin Bo Ryan’s Basketball Camp from 2010-2012

Philosophy on Skill Development

Coach Justin Anderson believes teaching fundamentals is absolutely crucial to the success of any basketball player and basketball program. Skill development is all about improving a player’s fundamental skills:

• Shooting
• Ball handling
• Passing
• Moving without the ball
• Moving within the offense
• Making sound decisions
• Footwork both on offense and on defense

When it comes to the skill development playbook, Coach Anderson believes it is imperative a player be able to learn the skill, apply the skill, and take the application of the skill to a competitive environment.

He has an old school mentality. Once any player walks on the court, he or she must be ready to work hard. He looks forward to the opportunity to help any player who has a strong desire, commitment and work ethic to elevate his or her game to the next level.

Several training packages are offered. Individual packages can be developed & tailored per your needs.

• 1-on-1
• Group
• Team training
• Game Film Breakdown: Player Position Coaching