Player Bio: Bill Roberts - NAVY OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE

Bill Roberts

	Hometown: Aurora, N.Y.
	Position: Head Coach (Seventh Season)
	Alma Mater: Springfield '92

Bill Roberts returns this season for his seventh year as the head coach of the Navy men's swimming program. Additionally, this is his 10th year of being a member of the program's coaching staff.

Roberts guided the Mids to a record-breaking year during the 2008-09 season. After posting a school-best 17 wins (in 19 meets) during the regular season, the Mids tallied a league-record 1031.5 points to win the Patriot League title by nearly 400 points.

The league crown was Navy's sixth in as many years of competing at the meet, with Roberts also receiving his third coach-of-the-year accolade (2004, `05, `09). The following week, Roberts also garnered conference coach-of-the-year honors when the Mids won the ECAC Open Championship.

Individually at the championship, Navy has totaled 57 individual and relay event titles during this time, more than twice as many as the next best program in the league.

With the success of the overall program, Navy also has consistently qualified individual athletes for national meets under Roberts. The program returned to the NCAA Championship Meet for the first time in nearly a decade during his inaugural season of 2004, with four swimmers competing in a combined six individual events at the national meet -- which included Noah White's `A' cut time in the 50 free -- and earning a pair of Honorable Mention All-America certificates in two relay events.

Navy again sent multiple swimmers to the NCAA Championship last year, with both Adam Meyer and Erik Hunter competing in a trio of events. Meyer would join the illustrious list of Navy swimmers to have garnered All-America accolades when he received Honorable Mention All-America honors last season.

The Mids have also enjoyed great success during the regular season under Roberts. After posting an 8-9 record during his initial season, Navy has totaled double digit wins in each of the last five seasons, including a 17-2 record during the 2008-09 campaign. Navy has tallied a 64-19 record over the last five seasons and is 72-28 overall under Roberts.

Additionally during the Roberts era, Navy swimmers have annually taken part in such national meets as the World Championship Trials, the ConocoPhillips National Championship and the USA Swimming Spring Championship. A trio of current or former Navy swimmers qualified for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, as well, with current senior Adam Meyer placing 17th in the 200 fly and 19th in the 200 IM.

Success has also been achieved by the men's swimming and diving team in the classroom under Roberts. A total of 65 Mids have earned Patriot League Academic Honor Roll accolades over the last six years, and the team has a whole has been recognized multiple times as an Academic All-America Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America.

Roberts first arrived at Navy during the summer of 1997 when he joined Lee Lawrence's coaching staff as an assistant coach. In three seasons together the Lawrence-Roberts duo guided Navy to a 27-10 record, including an 18-9 mark in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. Roberts coached Navy's 200 freestyle relay team that won the 1999 EISL title, and helped develop sprinter Clint Cornell to a 2000 Olympic Trials appearance and to the 2001 EISL 50-yard freestyle title.

A 1992 graduate of Springfield College, where he was a four-year letterwinner and served as team captain for two seasons, Roberts began his coaching career upon graduation as the head coach of the women's team at Wells College in his hometown of Aurora, N.Y. After two seasons at Wells, he served as a graduate assistant coach at East Carolina, during which time he earned a master's degree in athletic administration. In the summer of 1996, he joined the Villanova program for one year before coming to the Naval Academy.

Roberts left Navy in 2000 to become the head coach at Colgate, during which time his men's and women's teams combined to post a three-year record of 39-36.

Roberts and his wife, Nicole, have three sons -- Will, age 10; Nick, age eight; and Jackson, age six.