Bill Henderson - Head Coach

Bill Henderson begins the second year as head coach of the men's and women’s swimming & diving team at UW-RF

The first season, in Henderson’s words, “went very well and recruiting for the 2003-04 season looks very promising.”

Coach Henderson is originally from Sacramento, Calif., where he earned age group, high school and junior college All-American honors in swimming. He earned his BA in journalism and MS in physical education at California State University at Sacramento where he also was captain of the swimming & diving team.

Henderson’s coaching experience covers over 25 years at every level from summer recreation to NCAA Div. I. He has 12 years of head coaching experience at the USS club level for the Sierra Marlins Swim Team and the South Coast Aquatic Team. His club swimmers garnered dozens of national top 16 finishes, over 30 high school All-American mentions and qualified for junior and senior national competition.

He has four years experience as a head coach at the California community college level. As head coach at Foothill College his swimmers earned 20 All-American mentions in three seasons and the women’s team won the conference championship in 2000, their first in over nine years. Henderson also has over 13 years of junior college water polo coaching experience.

Henderson’s family lives in California. His sister, Donna, is an artist and his brother, Rick, is the assistant men’s and women’s swimming coach at UC-Davis.

He teaches in the UW-RF Health & Human Performance department.

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