Former Longwood men’s basketball assistant coach and director of operations Cody Anderson returned to the Lancer coaching staff as an assistant coach in June of 2021, resuming an impactful tenure with the program that saw him serve in a number of roles from 2015-16 through the Lancers’ milestone-filled first year under Aldrich in 2018-19.
A tireless and effective worker who recruited or mentored some Longwood’s top players in the Division I era, Anderson is involved with all facets of the program, including recruiting, scouting, on-court instruction, statistical analysis, practice logistics, development of the Longwood guards, and program development and oversight.
During the 2021-22 season, Longwood reached new highs and set a variety of program records. The team claimed the Big South regular season and tournament crowns to earn a trip to the NCAA National Tournament, all program firsts at the Division I level.
In addition, the team went 26-7 overall, the best record since the 1979-80 team went 28-3 while advancing to the NCAA Division III Final Four. The Lancers ripped off 10 straight conference wins to begin Big South play as part of an 11 game winning streak, the fourth time the team has won at least 10 straight games in program history.
The hot start to conference play continued as the team went a program-best 15-1 in Big South action before winning three straight games as the top seed in the Big South Tournament, and the team won 19 of its final 21 games on the year.
Since his 2015 graduation from the University of Georgia – where he served as a men’s basketball student manager for four years under Mark Fox – Anderson has spent four of his six professional seasons on the sidelines at Longwood. He joined the Lancer program in the fall of 2015 as director of operations under former head coach Jayson Gee, was promoted to assistant coach in his second season, and continued to hold that role in Longwood’s first season under Aldrich in 2018-19.
In the final season of his prior four-year stint in Farmville, Anderson helped Aldrich develop a Longwood team that made history by earning a bid to the College Basketball Invitational, which was the program’s first-ever bid to a Division I postseason tournament.
Following the 2018-19 season, Anderson returned to his high school alma mater, Habersham Central in Mount Airy, Ga., as the boys’ basketball head coach. There, he oversaw the entire Habersham County Basketball program for all age levels and led the Raiders’ varsity team to the program’s most wins in nearly a decade and the third-highest winning percentage in Habersham history. In his two years as head coach, he developed three all-region selections and capped his tenure with a first-round win in the region tournament.
A native of Alto, Ga., Anderson graduated from Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Teacher Education. He and his wife, Gabrielle, reside in Farmville after getting married in the spring of 2022.
