After 11 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 a career record of 129-78-16, including a 112-64-15 mark at West Florida. Among NCAA Division II coaches, he is in the top 50 in career winning percentage and career wins.

From 1995-2002, Elliott also took on head coaching duties of the 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. Elliott has also won two men's and three women's GSC Coach of the Year awards.

Last season, West Florida posted a 9-5-2 overall record and just missed a return to the GSC Tournament for the first time since 2003. The Argonauts concluded the season unbeaten in their last five matches.

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.