NEW YORK – Head Coach Allison Keeley announced, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, the addition of Julia Anderson to the Columbia Volleyball staff as an Assistant Coach for the upcoming season.
 
Anderson comes to Columbia after spending two seasons as the First Assistant Coach at Fairfield from 2017-19. 

While at Fairfield, Anderson focused primarily on the setters, a role she will continue at Columbia, and during her time at Fairfield she coached First-Year setter Alexis Rich, who was a unanimous pick for the 2018 MAAC Rookie Team.  Along with Rich's success, Anderson was key to Manuela Nicolini earning MAAC Setter of the Year and First Team All-MAAC honors following the 2017 season.  Fairfield also won itself a 2017 MAAC Championship with Anderson as a key part of the staff.

Anderson has also spent time with the USA NY club, coaching there from 2014-15 and from 2017-present.  During her time there she has had experience coaching on an international stage and in 2018 and 2019 she was the head coach as the club took part in the Global Challenge in Pula, Croatia.  

Before beginning her time as a coach, Anderson was a three-year letterwinner at Delaware, where she graduated from in 2017 and before transferring to Delaware, she spent her freshman season earning a letter at Maryland.  During her time at Delaware Anderson totaled 495 digs, 74 kills, 71 blocks and 46 aces, finishing her career ranked seventh in school history with 2,406 career assists and eighth with 8.07 assists per set.  Anderson is originally from Cornwall, N.Y.  
 
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