Honors & Accomplishments
• Big Red has won one Ivy title, advanced to the NCAA second round and qualified for the Ivy Tournament two times in four full seasons on the sidelines.
• Has helped develop six All-Ivy League defensive players, including 2017 conference Defensive Player of the Year and two-time All-American Catie Smith.
• Served as first men's lacrosse head coach at Capital University, posting a 35-15 record in three years.
Coaching Experience
• Assistant Coach, Cornell University (2016-present)
• Head Coach, Capital University men’s lacrosse (2014-16)
• Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator, Iron Horse Academy (2012-14)
• Assistant Coach, SUNY Potsdam men’s lacrosse (2010-12)
Playing Experience
• Rutgers University (2006-10)
• Four-year starting goalkeeper
• Three-time ECAC Defensive Player of the Week
• Two-time Big East Defensive Player of the Week
• Three-time All-ECAC Academic team member
Education
• B.A., History, Rutgers University (2010)
• M.E., Education, SUNY Potsdam (2012)
At Cornell
Bill Olin was named assistant coach for the Cornell women's lacrosse program in July 2016 and has made an immediate impact on the defense, helping the Big Red to an Ivy title, a pair of conference tournament appearances and an NCAA Tournament second round finish in 2017.
Olin has had four All-Ivy defenders and two all-league goalkeepers, including assisting in the development of 2017 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Catie Smith. His defenses have allowed fewer than 10 goals 23 times in the last four seasons, going 22-1 in those contests.
Prior to Cornell
Olin spent three years at Capital, becoming the first head coach in program history and leading the team to immediate success, compiling a 35-15 (.700) overall record and the 2015 OAC regular season title. In three seasons, his players collected 16 All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors, including nine first-team nods. He was named Capital's Coach of the Year by its Student-Athlete Advisory Council in both 2014 and 2015.
His 2015 squad won the OAC regular season championship in just the second year of the program's existence. The team finished with a regular season record of 14-3, including 6-0 in conference play, before finishing as league's tournament runner-up. Capital had eight members named to the all-OAC teams, including Defensive Player of the Year, Tate Stover. Brennan O'Callaghan was the recipient of the OAC Freshman of the Year and OAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year awards. At year's end, Olin was named the OAC Coach of the Year.
Under Olin's tutelage, the Crusaders ranked 21st in NCAA Division III in scoring defense (6.93 gpg.) and seventh in the nation in caused turnovers per game (13.21 pg.) in the program's first varsity season.
Prior to his time at Capital, Olin served as coach/director of recruiting at Iron Horse Academy, a lacrosse club based in Texas that prepares high school age players for competition at the college level. He also had been an assistant men's lacrosse coach and defensive coordinator at the State University of New York at Potsdam (2010-12). He helped Potsdam to its first-ever conference tournament final in 2011 and one of his defenders was named SUNYAC Player of the Year and garnered honorable mention All-America accolades.
Playing Career
A four-year starting goalkeeper at Rutgers, Olin earned ECAC Defensive Player of the Week honors three times and Big East Defensive Player of the Week twice during his career. He was a three-year member of the All-ECAC Academic team and was named to the Big East Honor Roll in 2010.
Personal
A native of Horseheads, N.Y., Olin earned his bachelor's in history from Rutgers in 2010 and his master's in education from Potsdam in 2012. He and his wife Katelynn have a daughter, Findley, and two sons, Brooks and Welles.
Updated June 2021
