Bill Wilkie returns to the track & field staff of head coach Kathy Manizza, offering nearly 20 years of cross country and track & field experience to the program. He works primarily with the sprinters.
A native of East Hampton, Wilkie has coached the successful boys and girls' cross country and indoor and outdoor track programs at East Hampton High School since 1998.
A two-time Shoreline Conference cross country Coach-of-the-Year, Wilkie has led the Bell Ringers to 34 conference championships and to 26 individual and five relay teams to state titles. His 2008 girls' cross country team captured the Class "S" championship.
In addition to his coaching duties at East Hampton, Wilkie has been active as program coordinator for the Connecticut Chargers Disabled Sports Team, games director at the National Sports Festival for the Disabled and sports and recreation director for United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Hartford.
Since the mid-1980s, Wilkie has been active on the national level with the Paralympics, world powerlifting and world cycling championships. In 1989, he served as head cycling coach at the Robin Hood Games in Nottingham, England and in 1990 at the cycling World Championships at Assen, Holland and as the head cycling coach at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona.
Inducted into the New England Wheelchair Sports Association Hall of Fame in 2003, Wilkie has served on the board of directors for the United States Sports and Fitness Center in Boston and the U.S. Cerebral Palsy Athletic Association and as chair of the New England Cerebral Palsy Coaches' Association.
