William “Bill” Nelson is a former Australian Olympic swimming coach, vice president of the World Swimming Coaches Association and Coach of The Year. He is also a consultant to the National Rugby League & NRL teams, National Basketball league teams, AFL and Rugby Union, Australian Road Cycling team, and Australian Olympic Basketball team.
During his career Bill coached Daniel Kowalski, Matthew Dunn, Scott Miller, Michael Klim, Nicole Stevenson, Linley Frame and Duncan Armstrong. He was the national event coach for distance swimming for the Australian swimming team, a program that contained swimmers such as Ian Thorpe, Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett.
References
- "Bus driver: Former swim coach the man behind Tigers ..." SMH. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- "Australian Institute of Sport 1992 Swimmers Manual" (PDF). Australian Sports Commission. 11 September 1992.
- "ICMI - Bill Nelson". ICMI. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- "MTA Entertainment and Events - Bill Nelson". ICMI. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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