Willie Anderson began his trapshooting career at local shoots with his father. In 1957, Anderson joined the American Trapshooting Association, registering his first targets. A few years later he purchased a lifetime ATA membership, and he has not stopped shooting trap since. During a shooting career that has spanned 56 years, Anderson has been on the ATA All-American team four times as a Senior Veteran. He was a member of the 1966 all-Ohio Men’s team as well as several times on the all-Ohio Veteran and Senior Veteran teams. He has over 800,000 lifetime targets. Anderson has won trophies too numerous to list. Some of the more memorable Grand American trophies include third place in the 1962 Grand American Handicap, “AA” winner of the 1975 Dayton homecoming and the only shooter to break all the preliminary singles targets at the 1975 Grand American Class “B”, runner-up in the 1976 Grand American Doubles championship, champion of the 1987 Lawrence Evans Handicap, Senior Veteran champion of the 2008 Browning Doubles Class championship and Senior Veteran champion of the 2008 Remington Nitro 27 Handicap.