After 13 seasons as head coach of the West Florida men's soccer team, Bill Elliott is one of the top coaches in the NCAA Division II. Elliott has compiled an overall career coaching record of 307-144-29, including a 248-101-28 mark at West Florida, serving as both men's and women's head coach at one point. He is among the top NCAA Division II coaches, and is in the top 30 in career winning percentage(.630) and career wins(150).

From 1995 -2001, Elliott served as head coach for both the men's and women's team. He is the only coach in conference history to lead both men's and women's programs to the conference tournament, and the only coach to have won both men's and women's titles. In his time serving as the head coach for the women's team he led his team to the GSC tournament every year, winning three titles in seven years. Elliott has also won three men's and three women's GSC Coach of the Year awards.

Elliot has remained head coach of the men's soccer team since his arrival at UWF in 1995. With the men he is 150-67-21. He has led the men to five GSC Championships in nine appearances. In 2006 the men won their first GSC title in three years and earned a spot in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1998. The 3rd ranked Argonauts advanced all the way to the NCAA Semifinals before falling to top-ranked Dowling 5-4 in a shootout.

Last season, Elliot led a West Florida team to an 18-2-0 overall record and became the first team to repeat as Gulf South Conference Champions in over a decade. Last year's squad set school records for consecutive wins (18), consecutive home wins (10), and consecutive road wins (8). They also returned to the NCAA tournament but fell to GSC rival Montevallo in the second round.

Elliott's 2003 campaign led to the Argonauts third men's soccer conference title with a record of 14-5-1. He earned his second GSC Men's Soccer Coach of the Year Award. The Argonauts scored a team record 76 goals. West Florida's 5-0 shutout over Central Arkansas in the first round of the GSC Tournament marked Elliott's 100th win at West Florida. The Argonauts finished the season ranked 23rd in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/adidas regular season poll.

In 1998, the Argonauts pulled off a sweep, becoming the first school in GSC history to win both men's and women's titles in the same year. Elliott was selected by his peers as GSC Men's Soccer Coach of the Year. That year, the Argonaut men became just the second GSC squad to advance to the NCAA regionals, falling 3-1 to South Carolina-Spartanburg. Elliott was selected as the NCAA Division II South Region Men's Coach of the Year.

The men took the GSC championship again in 2001. The 0.91 goals against average was the lowest in team history. Elliott also led the women's team to a second NCAA Tournament appearance and a record of 18-3-0, surpassing a milestone in his women's coaching stint with 115 career wins.

Elliott came to West Florida from Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, Tenn. He spent two successful seasons with the Bulldogs, leading both men's and women's teams to the playoffs in each season. Elliott's 1993 women's team captured the NAIA District 24 title, and he was named the district coach of the year. Overall, his women's teams compiled a 17-18 mark and his men's teams were 17-14-1.

Elliott's coaching career began in 1992 at Division III Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. as an assistant under Pepe Fernandez. In his year at Maryville, the women finished 15-3 and ranked 20th in the NCAA Division III. The men finished 10-8.

Elliott played high school soccer at Hixson High School in Chattanooga, Tenn. At Hixson, he led his team to a second place finish in the state as a senior captain.

Elliott also played Division III professional soccer in the United States Interregional Soccer League as a member of the Chattanooga Express. He helped lead the Express to a runner-up finish at the 1993-94 Indoor Soccer National Championships. In 1997, he was hired in mid-season as a player and head coach of the U.S.I.S.L. D-III Mobile Revellers with whom he had started the season as a player. In 1998, he was a player and assistant coach for the Pensacola Barracudas.

Elliott earned a bachelor of science in business administration in 1991 and a master's of science in recreation and sports management in 1993 from the University of Tennessee. He also played played NCAA Division I varsity soccer for the Volunteers. Elliott holds the NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and a USSF A License. .