Mary Haridin-Baylor Athletics

Bill Bleil joined the UMHB football coaching staff as a full-time assistant in June of 2020. He has coached three all-Region selections and three All-America selections during his tenure.  

Bleil joins UMHB after spending the previous two seasons as offensive line coach at Lamar University and he also served as the Cardinals’ co-offensive coordinator in 2019. Bleil molded the Lamar offensive line into a unit that ranked 13^th in the country in rushing offense in 2018 and produced the program’s first Southland Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2019. Bleil also has collegiate head coaching experience after a five-year stint at Western Carolina University. He posted a career record of 30-36 in that time and was named Southern Conference Coach of the Year following the 2000 season. Bleil has also made collegiate coaching stops at Missouri Southern, Rhode Island, Iowa State University, Akron University, Northern Illinois, Pittsburgh University, South Dakota, the University of Pacific and Northwestern. Bleil served as assistant head coach at Missouri Southern and Akron and was also offensive coordinator at Rhode Island. He brings 27 years of Division I coaching experience to Belton.

Bleil earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern College in 1981. He earned a Master’s Degree from New Mexico Highlands University in 1982. Bleil and his wife, Laurel, have two sons, Kevin and Tim, and two grandchildren. Kevin and Tim are both assistant football coaches at Stephen F. Austin University.