Don Anderson is the 2023 recipient of the Iowa Football Coaches Association (IFCA) Walt Fiegel Coaching Award. A native and high school graduate of Dows, Anderson attended Iowa Central Community College and Northwest Missouri State University before entering coaching.
He has been a head football coach for 40 years at the high school level and a college football assistant coach at Buena Vist for one. His varsity stops included Dumont, Thompson-Woden-Crystal Lake, North Iowa, Rockwell City-Lytton, Sumner-Fredericksburg, Battle Creek-Ida Grove and Iowa Falls-Alden.
Anderson has had teams qualify for the state playoffs in four different classes and has served as a past IFCA president and Academic All-State committee chairman. Don has also coached boys and girls basketball, boys and girls track, baseball and golf.
IFCA Walt Fiegel Coaching with Character Past Award Winners
2004 Ken Winkler, West Marshall
2005 Jerry Staton, Albia
2006 Tom Stone, Pekin
2007 Ed Thomas, Aplington-Parkersburg
2008 Bob McCoy, Bedford
2009 Darrell Schumacher, Oskaloosa
2010 Gaylord Schelling, Atlantic
2011 Bill Kibby, JSPC
2012 Curt Bladt, Harlan
2013 Bob Jensen, Mount Pleasant
2014 Pat Mitchell, Cedar Falls
2015 Mike Dirksen, Mason City Newman
2016 Jerry Pezzetti, Ankeny Centennial
2017 Bob Howard, Webster City
2018 Lyle Alumbaugh, Panorama
2019 Bob Sanger, Britt-West Hancock
2020 Steve Milder, West Central, Maynard
2021 Kevin Bowman, Maquoketa
2022 Gary Swenson Valley, West Des Moines
2023 Don Anderson