Entering her fourth season at Columbia, Julia Anderson was announced as Assistant Volleyball Coach by head coach Allison Keeley prior to the 2019 season.
She has spent her time with the Lions working primarily with the setters.
Anderson's work during the 2021 season showed up on the court as first-year Cadence Gronski was on a torrid pace, recording 453 total assists (10.30 assists per set) over 13 matches played before suffering an injury. Anderson's tutelage was able to help senior Shari Stenglein step into the role as setter, where she recorded 350 total assists serving as the primary setter following Gronski's injury.
During the 2019 season, junior setter Audrey Cheng pass 2,000 assists in her career. And under Anderson's tutelage, Cheng positioned herself as third on the all-time career assists list for Columbia.
Anderson came to Columbia after spending two seasons as the First Assistant Coach at Fairfield from 2017-19.
Anderson focused primarily on the setters, during her time at Fairfield she coached First-Year setter Alexis Rich, who was an 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 during her freshman season she earned a letter at Maryland before transferring to Delaware. 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.
