Adam Anderson enters into his tenth season as the Muleriders’ pitching coach and is entering his 19th overall with the program after beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant in 2010. Additionally, Anderson is responsible for the Muleriders’ strength and conditioning program as well as maintaining the baseball facilities at Walker Stadium at Goodheart Field.
In the 2025 season, Anderson coached a pair of all-region pitchers in Jeremy Adorno and Austin Adair. Adorno was named to the All-Central Region Second Team for the NCBWA, D2CCA, and the ABCA. Adair was named to the NCBWA All-Central Region Second Team. Both pitchers claimed their spots on the All-Arkansas Team for Natural State Baseball.
Over the four seasons that Anderson has coached Adorno, the Florida native accounted for a 3.55 ERA, 35-11 record, 16 complete games, 407.2 innings pitched, and 461 strikeouts. Including his awards listed already, Adorno's career includes 1x GAC Pitcher of the Year, 1x GAC Newcomer of the Year, 3x All-GAC First Team, 1x All-GAC Second Team, and was named to the 2023 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Preseason Watch List as one of the five non-Division I players.
In his freshman campaign at Southern Arkansas University, Adorno was named the D2CCA and NCBWA National Pitcher of the Year after finishing 14-0 in 16 starts, while compiling an ERA of 2.98 in 105.2 innings with 130 strikeouts. He walked just 40 batters while holding opponents to a .196 batting average in helping lead SAU to the NCAA Baseball Championship for the first time in program history.
Overall in his time on staff, Anderson has helped coach pitching staffs that have been ranked at the top of the conference in several key statistical categories on a yearly basis. Anderson has also helped oversee the development of five pitchers that have been selected in the Major League Baseball draft since 2011.
In addition to his duties at SAU, Anderson previously coached four summers with the Liberal Bee Jays of the Jayhawk Summer Collegiate Baseball League.
In summers of 2012 & 2013, Anderson was the pitching coach for the Bee Jays, while his final two seasons in Liberal, 2014 & 2015, Anderson served as the head coach. As head coach, his 2015 team would finish 3rd in the National Baseball Congress World Series Tournament.
Before joining the coaching ranks, Anderson was a junior college transfer to SAU from Hill College (Hillsboro, Texas) in 2008.
Over his final two seasons as a collegiate player, Anderson pitched for the Muleriders and helped SAU go 98-23 (.810) and advance to Region Tournaments each season. In his senior season of 2009, Anderson helped SAU attain a No. 1 national ranking, win the program’s first Gulf South Conference West Division title, and later its second GSC Tournament Championship.
Originally from Ajax, Ontario, Anderson received his B.A. in history in 2009 and his M.S. in Kinesiology in 2011, both from SAU. Anderson is married to the former Amanda Pharr and the couple reside in Magnolia.
