Bill Detrick
Sport(s) | Basketball, Golf |
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Biographical details | |
Born | 1927 Newark, New Jersey |
Died | September 19, 2014 (aged 87) |
Playing career | |
1946–1950 | Central Connecticut |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1959–1987 | Central Connecticut |
1988–1989 | Coast Guard |
William H. "Bill" Detrick (1927 – September 19, 2014) was an American college basketball and golf coach. He was most notable as head men's basketball coach at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), where he served for 29 seasons and won a school-record 468 games.[1]
Detrick was a three-sport athlete in baseball, football, and basketball at Central Connecticut, becoming the first student in school history to earn 12 varsity letters. He returned to CCSU in 1959, as head coach where he remained until 1987. After a short stint as head coach at the United States Coast Guard Academy, Detrick went on to become head golf coach at Trinity College in Connecticut, where he remained for 23 years and was a three-time conference coach of the year.[2]
Detrick was an inaugural member of the Central Connecticut athletic Hall of Fame and was the namesake for the school's basketball arena, the William H. Detrick Gymnasium. At Trinity, the school honored Detrick in 2013 be renaming its annual golf tournament the Bill Detrick Invitational.[2]
Detrick died on September 19, 2014 at the age of 87.[1]
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- 1927 births
- 2014 deaths
- American basketball coaches
- American military personnel of World War II
- Basketball players from New Jersey
- Central Connecticut Blue Devils baseball players
- Central Connecticut Blue Devils football players
- Central Connecticut Blue Devils men's basketball coaches
- Central Connecticut Blue Devils men's basketball players
- College golf coaches in the United States
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey
- High school basketball coaches in the United States
- Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty