Bill Pilczuk
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| Full name | William Pilczuk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Bill" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States |
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| Born | September 14, 1971 Cape May Point, New Jersey |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Auburn University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Pilczuk (born September 14, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer and world champion. Pilczuk specialized in the 50-meter freestyle, winning medals in the event in the FINA world championships, Pan Pacific Championships, and Pan American Games.
Pilczuk is a native of Cape May Point, New Jersey.[1] He graduated from Lower Cape May Regional High School, and swam for the Wildwood Crest Dolphins swim team.
He received an athletic scholarship to attend Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, where he competed for the Auburn Tigers swimming and diving team from 1993 to 1995. During his college career, he earned All-American honors three consecutive years. He graduated from Auburn with his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in 1994, and a master's degree in exercise physiology in 1998.
Pilczuk won gold medals in the 50-meter freestyle at the 1995 Pan American Games, and again at the 1997 and 1999 Pan Pacific Championships. He won the world title in his signature 50-meter freestyle event at the 1998 World Championships, with a time of 22.29 seconds. In the process, he defeated Russia's Alexander Popov in what USA Today called the "Upset of the Decade." He was also a five-time U.S. national champion, and was a member of the 4x50-meter medley relay world record team in 1996.
He served as an assistant coach for the Tigers swim team from 1995 to 2003, during which the Auburn men's team won their first-ever NCAA team championship in 1997, and the men's and women's teams won additional NCAA team championships in 2003. Pilczuk was the National Sprint coach and National Youth coach for Great Britain from 2003 to 2008, and was a coach on several international teams including the World Championships, Junior World Championships, European Championships, European Juniors, Australian Age-Group Championships, and the FINA World Cups. From 2008 to 2013, Pilczuk worked with individual swimmers, club teams, camps and clinics, including several 2012 Olympic team members. Since August 2013, he has been and assistant swimming coach as the Savannah College of Art and Design
He now resides in Pooler, Georgia, with his wife Davana and their two children.
References
- ↑ Scott Brown, "Pilczuk finds fulfilling career in pool; The Cape May Point native says he is successful, without a trip to the Olympics," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 1999. Accessed June 1, 2008.
External links
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- American male freestyle swimmers
- Auburn Tigers men's swimmers
- People from Cape May County, New Jersey
- Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
