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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bill Jones To Retire
March 11, 2002 | General
March 11, 2002
Bill Jones, after 32 years in college athletics and 28 years of overseeing the intercollegiate athletic program's sports medicine personnel at BGSU, will retire at the conclusion of the academic year. The South Amherst, Ohio, native oversees three full-time assistants, one graduate assistant and 25 student athletic trainers and works directly with the Falcon football and hockey programs. He came to BGSU in 1974, following a three-year stint as head athletic trainer and golf coach at Ashland College.
During his tenure at Bowling Green, Jones has worked under five University presidents, five football coaches and three hockey coaches.
Jones is a 1966 graduate of BGSU and the holder of a master's degree from the University as well He is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and a well-known clinician. Jones has served as the regional site coordinator for the NATA certification exam.
In 1997, he was appointed to the NATA College-University Athletics Trainer Committee as well as being inducted into the Ohio Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame. He was also the first trainer ever named to the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee.
Jones also served as an assistant football coach at both Vermillion and Findlay High Schools and was an assistant trainer at the University of Toledo in 1970-71.
Born May 28, 1943, Jones was a long-time American Legion, Pony and Little League umpire. He and his wife, Barbara, are the parents of a daughter, Cindy, and a son, Scott.
A national search for his replacement will begin immediately.
