Gannon Names Bill Bradley Assistant Swimming Coach

ERIE, Pa. – Gannon Athletics Director Meghan Morphy has introduced the addition of Bill Bradley as an assistant coach for the Golden Knights males’s and girls’s swimming applications.

Bradley joins the Gannon workers after spending greater than 4 years as the top coach of the lads’s and girls’s swimming and diving applications on the State University of New York at Fredonia, the place he led all aspects of this system whereas fostering a powerful tradition of educational and athletic success.

During his tenure at Fredonia, Bradley applied complete coaching plans for swimmers and divers, coordinated all recruiting efforts, supervised assistant coaches and diving coaches, and managed workforce journey and competitors schedules, together with annual winter coaching journeys. He additionally launched and hosted the annual Blue Devil Invitational starting in 2023 and oversaw fundraising, alumni relations, and social media initiatives.

In addition to his teaching obligations, Bradley managed natatorium operations at Fredonia, together with facility scheduling, leases, maintenance, and the hiring and supervision of lifeguard workers. In Spring 2025, he developed and coordinated Fredonia’s TOPSwim program, offering individualized swim classes for gratis to youth with particular wants in the local people.

Bradley additionally brings intensive membership teaching expertise, having served as head coach of the Hammerhead Swim Club from 2018 to 2022. There, he labored with swimmers throughout all age teams whereas overseeing meet entries, USA Swimming and SafeSport compliance, and supervising assistant coaches and learn-to-swim instructors.

A former standout student-athlete, Bradley competed for Fredonia from 2014 to 2018 and served as a two-year workforce captain. He earned a number of All-SUNYAC honors and was a part of program-record-setting relay groups throughout his collegiate profession.

Bradley earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from SUNY Fredonia in 2018 and is at the moment pursuing a Master of Business Administration from the University at Buffalo School of Management.