Bill Decker
{{Short description|American college baseball coach}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Bill Decker
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| current_title = Head coach
| current_team = Harvard
| current_conference = Ivy League
| current_record = {{winning percentage|191|270|record=y}}
| contract =
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| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1980–1984
| player_team2 = Ithaca
| player_sport3 = Baseball
| player_years4 = ?
| player_team4 = Ithaca
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1999
| coach_team2 = Trinity (CT)
| coach_sport3 = Baseball
| coach_years4 = 1989
| coach_team4 = Wesleyan (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1990
| coach_team5 = Macalester
| coach_years6 = 1991–2012
| coach_team6 = Trinity (CT)
| coach_years7 = 2013–present
| coach_team7 = Harvard
| overall_record = {{winning percentage|5|3|record=y}} (football)
{{winning percentage|728|527|record=y}} (baseball)
| tournament_record = Baseball
25–18 (NCAA D-III)
19–8 (NESCAC)
0–2 (NCAA D-I)
2–2 (IVY)
| championships =
- 5× NESCAC East (2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- 4× NESCAC Tournament (2003, 2008, 2009, 2012)
- Ivy League (2019)
- Ivy League Series (2019)
| awards =
- Ivy League Coach of the Year (2019)
| coaching_records =
}}
Bill Decker in an American college baseball coach, currently serving as head coach of the Harvard Crimson baseball program. He was named to that position prior to the 2013 season.{{cite web|url=http://www.gocrimson.com/sports/bsb/coaches/Bill_Decker|publisher=Harvard Crimson|title=Bill Decker|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/bsb/coaches/decker_bill|publisher=Trinity College|title=Bill Decker|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.courant.com/2012/09/26/trinity-baseball-coach-bill-decker-to-leave-for-harvard/|newspaper=Hartford Courant|author=Mike Anthony|date=September 26, 2012|title=Trinity Baseball Coach Bill Decker To Leave For Harvard|access-date=October 11, 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2012/09/27/harvard-picks-bill-decker-new-baseball-coach/eoQYSFPagLupqfbqF6V9kJ/story.html|newspaper=The Boston Globe|title=Harvard picks Bill Decker as new baseball coach|date=September 27, 2012|author=Craig Larson|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nebaseballnews.com/bill-decker-named-new-head-baseball-coach-at-harvard/|publisher=New England Baseball News|date=September 25, 2012|title=Bill Decker named new head baseball coach at Harvard|accessdate=October 11, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015011015/http://www.nebaseballnews.com/bill-decker-named-new-head-baseball-coach-at-harvard/|archivedate=October 15, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-27/bill-decker-leaves-trinity-to-become-baseball-coach-at-harvard.html|publisher=Bloomberg|title=Bill Decker Leaves Trinity to Become Baseball Coach at Harvard|author=Nancy Kercheval|date=September 27, 2012|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/boston/story/_/id/8429657/harvard-crimson-names-bill-decker-new-head-baseball-coach|publisher=ESPN|date=September 26, 2012|access-date=October 11, 2013|title=Bill Decker is new Harvard coach}}
Playing career
Decker played baseball and football for Ithaca. His baseball career ended prematurely due to injury, but Decker served as captain of the football team in his senior season. Decker was a defensive end for the Bombers football team.
Coaching career
Decker's coaching career began with a single season each at Deerfield Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy in assistant coaching roles. He then moved to the college level at Wesleyan for a single season before earning his first head coaching position at Minnesota's Macalester. After one season and an 8–26 record, he moved to Trinity in Hartford, Connecticut. In his second season, the Bantams reached the ECAC semifinals. In 1998, Trinity made its first of nine appearances in the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. The Bantams reached the College World Series in 2003, 2005, and 2008, winning the national championship in 2008. In his tenure, the Bantams recorded 529 wins and 231 losses, for a winning percentage of .696, including a 45–1 record in 2008. Decker earned many coach of the year awards, including the American Baseball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year in 2008. After the 2012 season and another NCAA tournament appearance, Decker was hired to replace the deceased Joe Walsh at Harvard.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/sports/22trinity.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Alan Schwarz|date=April 22, 2008|title=In Sport Filled With Flaws, a Chase for Perfection|accessdate=October 11, 2013}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Trinity Bantams
| conf = New England Small College Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1998
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1999
| name = Trinity
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 5–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Trinity
| overall = 5–3
| confrecord = 5–3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 5–3
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
=Baseball=
This table shows Decker's record as a collegiate head baseball coach.{{cite web|title=NCAA Database|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|website=NCAA.org|accessdate=August 9, 2014}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Macalester Scots
| conference = Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1990
| endyear = single
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1990
| name = Macalaster
| overall = 8–26
| conference = 4–16
| confstanding = T–10th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Macalaster
| overall = {{winning percentage|8|26|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winning percentage|4|16|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Trinity Bantams
| conference= Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1991
| endyear = 1994
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1991
| name = Trinity
| overall = 14–9
| conference = 11–8
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1992
| name = Trinity
| overall = 19–9
| conference = 17–5
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1993
| name = Trinity
| overall = 12–8
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1994
| name = Trinity
| overall = 18–13
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Trinity Bantams
| conference= NCAA Division III independent
| startyear = 1995
| endyear = 1999
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1995
| name = Trinity
| overall = 21–12
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1996
| name = Trinity
| overall = 19–15
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1997
| name = Trinity
| overall = 17–13
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1998
| name = Trinity
| overall = 23–11
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1999
| name = Trinity
| overall = 25–11
| conference =
| confstanding =
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Trinity Bantams
| conference= New England Small College Athletic Conference
| startyear = 2000
| endyear = 2012
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2000
| name = Trinity
| overall = 22–9
| conference = 7–3
| confstanding =
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2001
| name = Trinity
| overall = 25–10
| conference = 9–3
| confstanding = 2nd (East)
| postseason = NESCAC Tournament
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2002
| name = Trinity
| overall = 26–10
| conference = 8–4
| confstanding = 2nd (East)
| postseason = NESCAC Tournament
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = divboth
| season = 2003
| name = Trinity
| overall = 27–12
| conference = 9–3
| confstanding = T–1st (East)
| postseason = College World Series
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2004
| name = Trinity
| overall = 27–9
| conference = 10–2
| confstanding = 1st (East)
| postseason = NESCAC Tournament
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = division
| season = 2005
| name = Trinity
| overall = 35–9
| conference = 10–2
| confstanding = T–1st (East)
| postseason = College World Series
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2006
| name = Trinity
| overall = 17–18
| conference = 6–6
| confstanding = 3rd (East)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2007
| name = Trinity
| overall = 30–8
| conference = 8–4
| confstanding = 3rd (East)
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = national
| season = 2008
| name = Trinity
| overall = 45–1
| conference = 12–0
| confstanding = 1st (East)
| postseason = National Champions
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = divboth
| season = 2009
| name = Trinity
| overall = 33–7
| conference = 12–0
| confstanding = 1st (East)
| postseason = College World Series
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2010
| name = Trinity
| overall = 19–11
| conference = 6–6
| confstanding = T–2nd (East)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2011
| name = Trinity
| overall = 21–15
| conference = 5–7
| confstanding = T–3rd (East)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = divboth
| season = 2012
| name = Trinity
| overall = 34–11
| conference = 10–2
| confstanding = 1st (East)
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Trinity
| overall = {{winning percentage|529|231|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winning percentage|140|55|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Harvard Crimson
| conference = Ivy League
| startyear = 2013
| endyear =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2013
| name = Harvard
| overall = 10–30
| conference = 7–13
| confstanding = 3rd (Rolfe)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2014
| name = Harvard
| overall = 11–28
| conference = 5–15
| confstanding = 4th (Rolfe)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2015
| name = Harvard
| overall = 18–24
| conference = 7–13
| confstanding = 2nd (Rolfe)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2016
| name = Harvard
| overall = 17–24
| conference = 9–11
| confstanding = T–3rd (Rolfe)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2017
| name = Harvard
| overall = 19–23
| conference = 7–13
| confstanding = 3rd (Rolfe)
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2018
| name = Harvard
| overall = 22–20
| conference = 12–9
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2019
| name = Harvard
| overall = 27–16
| conference = 14–7
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2020
| name = Harvard
| overall = 1–5
| conference = 0–0
| confstanding =
| postseason = Season canceled due to COVID-19
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2021
| name = Harvard
| overall = 0–0
| conference = 0–0
| confstanding =
| postseason = Ivy League opted-out of the season
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2022
| name = Harvard
| overall = 19–22
| conference = 10–11
| confstanding = T-4th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2023
| name = Harvard
| overall = 20–24
| conference = 15–6
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2024
| name = Harvard
| overall = 13–26
| conference = 9–12
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2025
| name = Harvard
| overall = 14–28
| conference = 9–12
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = Ivy League Tournament
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Harvard
| overall = {{winning percentage|191|270|record=y}}
| confrecord = {{winning percentage|104|122|record=y}}
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = {{winning percentage|728|527|record=y}}
}}
See also
References
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