A-P graduate Andersen named Grundy Co. deputy

A Dike native who excelled in sports at Aplington-Parkersburg High School and spent the last five years of his career at the State Training School in Eldora began work as a Grundy County sheriff’s deputy last Monday.

Zach Andersen, now 31 and residing in Dike with his wife Heather and their young daughter, grew up there and attended school at D-NH until junior high before he transferred to A-P, where his father had been a star athlete. Andersen starred in multiple sports for the Falcons, most notably wrestling, and went on to compete collegiately at Morningside College in Sioux City, earning a degree in communications.

After a stint coaching wrestling at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls and starting as a youth services worker at the State Training School, Andersen and his wife moved back to Dike, and recommendations from several friends and colleagues pushed him toward becoming a police officer.

Read the full article in the September 6 edition of the Eclipse.