2019 Levittown School District Hall of Fame Inductees

Bill Tierney

Alumni Award

Memorial

Mr. William Tierney is currently the head Lacrosse coach at the University of Denver, and in 2015 he became the first college coach to win the NCAA D1 Championship west of the Eastern Time zone In addition to his success at the University of Denver, he coached six NCAA D1 championship teams at Princeton and was part of a coaching team that won championships at Johns Hopkins University. In 1983 he was named Division III Coach of the Year and was later named USILA Coach of the Year (1992). Mr. Tierney was inducted into the Long Island Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame (1994), the New Jersey Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame (1999) and the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame (2002) with a winning percentage of 77.2, ranking among the best in the sport's history.