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Bill Henderson has been named an assistant swim coach with the US Paralympic
team that will compete in Athens in September.
The team will compete in Athens from Sept. 17-28.
Henderson finished his second year as head coach of the men's and women’s
swimming & diving team at UW-RF in 2003-04.
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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