GO HORNETS!

Introduced as Shenandoah University's fourth full-time baseball coach in July 2003, Kevin Anderson has brought Shenandoah University baseball to new heights in his short time at SU.

Anderson is the former head baseball coach at James Madison University and came to Shenandoah after five years as a teacher at Warren County High School in Front Royal, Va. The Winchester native was the head baseball coach at Warren County for all five years of his tenure there and the head football coach for the final three years. Anderson increased the success level in both programs during his time with the ‘Cats; the football program rose from 28th in Region II to 10th while the 1999 baseball team made its first regional appearance in more than a decade.

In 2004, Anderson guided Shenandoah University to its second best baseball season ever. The Hornets were 23-20 and won a school record 11 straight non-conference games in 2004, despite having just 17 healthy players for most of the season.

Anderson backed up that campaign with a 23-19 record in 2005. The Hornets defeated the regular season champions from the USA South, the ODAC and the MAC Commonwealth and set a new school record eight conference victories.

This past season, Anderson's Hornets improved to 25 overall victories and a sixth place finish in the always tough USA South. SU went into the final weekend of the 2006 regular season with a chance to tie for the regular season title.

From 1994-97, Anderson won nearly 150 games and had two CAA Tournament championship appearances at JMU. His 1995 team was an NCAA Tournament participant and the Dukes had the second highest RPI improvement in the nation behind Rice University.

Year	School	Overall	USA South	Place
1994	JMU	40-19-1	n/a	n/a
1995	JMU	42-17	n/a	n/a
1996	JMU	34-25	n/a	n/a
1997	JMU	31-26	n/a
2004	SU	23-20	7-14	8th
2005	SU	23-19	8-10	7th
2006	SU	25-18	7-11	6th
Totals		218-144-1	22-35

A 1979 graduate of James Wood HS, Anderson also coached both the Winchester Royals and the New Market Rebels in the Valley League. Winchester won the 1990 pennant under Anderson’s direction.

In October 2005, Anderson was inducted into the James Wood Hall of Fame. He becomes the fourth member of the SU coaching staff to be inducted into a hall of fame.

“Kevin is exactly the type of coach we need to bring our baseball program back to the level of success it had in 2000,” SU Athletic Director John Hill said at the time of Anderson's arrival. “He has had tremendous success at every place he has coached, and I have no doubt that will continue here. I look forward to having him around for a long time.”

In 2000, Shenandoah won a school record 31 games and finished second in both the Dixie (now USA South) regular season and tournament. SU was also ranked as high as 23rd in the nation and had two players, Jeremy Schutt and Geoff Williams, earn All-America honors.

“I was very interested in this job because I know that Shenandoah is a place you can win,” Anderson said. “Paul (O’Neil, the coach from 1997-2000) proved that and I am eager to see what we can do.

“For me, this is a win-win. I was very happy at Warren County and would have gladly continued there, but my heart is in coaching college baseball. To have the job come open at Shenandoah is the best possible situation for me and my family.

“I intend to have the community heavily involved in this program. We will do everything we can do to try and keep the local kids at home and playing for us. The USA South is a great Division III baseball league and I look forward to competing for a conference championship.

“I am a firm believer in the vision that Dr. Davis and Mr. Hill have for Shenandoah University, its students and its athletic programs. I am going to go out and find quality young men who are serious about both baseball and academics. I intend on building a program for the long term. This is my home and I want to be here for an extended amount of time.”

Anderson and his wife of 11 years, Ginger, are the parents of two boys: Kolton, 7; and Kooper, 6. The Anderson's youngest child, Khloe, will celebrate her second birthday in November 2006.

Kirk Renegar enters his second season as assistant varsity/head junior varsity baseball coach at Shenandoah. On the field, Renegar is primarily responsible for working with the Hornets catchers. Under Renegar’s tutelage in 2005, Hornets catchers threw out an excellent 51% of all would be base stealers, a 23% increase from 2004. Coach Renegar’s responsibilities also include assisting with the outfielders and serving as the hitting coach.

Off the field, Renegar serves as Anderson’s recruiting coordinator and is Anderson's primary assistant with the day to day operations of the baseball program.

A native of Stuart, Va., Renegar comes to Shenandoah University after completing his undergraduate degree in History at Brevard College in Brevard, N.C. Despite battling a shoulder injury during much of his career, he was able to be an integral part of Brevard’s success. Renegar played in the 2003 and 2004 regional tournaments and helped his alma mater to the 2004 Appalachian Athletic Conference Championship. In 2003 and 2004, Renegar was also named to the Academic All-Conference team. Coach Renegar currently resides in Winchester and is completing his Masters degree at Shenandoah.

Simon Volinsky rounds out the Hornets baseball staff. Mr. V, as he is known, earned his degree in Civil Engineering from The City College of New York in 1953. While at CCNY, Volinsky played freshman, JV and two years of varsity baseball.

After college, Volinsky served as a lieutenant (JG.) in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineers. Volinsky retired from CBS in 1988 as the vice president of facilities. He was an assistant coach of varsity baseball at Nelson County High School for three years in the late 1990's.

In his first season on the Hornets staff is long-time high school coach Archie Moore.

Moore, who actually graduated from Shenandoah in 1968 when it was a two-year school, comes to SU after a stellar high school career.

A teacher and coach for the Loudoun County (Va.) School District for 34-years, Moore was the head baseball coach at Loudoun Valley from 1978 to 1994 and the assistant baseball coach at Loudoun County from 1999 to 2003.

No retired from teaching, the long-time Winchester comes on board to help with SU outfielders and hitters.