BILL DUKETT

Coach

Served as W&J’s associate head coach and offensive strategist under AFCA Hall of Fame head coach John Luckhardt from 1982-1998, helping the Presidents win 137 games with two NCAA Division III national championship game appearances, four NCAA Regional titles, and 14 President’s Athletic Conference championships.
He also spent 10 years as W&J’s head track and field coach and nine seasons as the head men’s and women’s golf coach.
Dukett guided six W&J golf teams to PAC championships and was selected conference Coach of the Year six times.
In 1998, he started the first women’s golf team in school history.
After working eight years with alumni relations and development, Dukett became W&J’s athletic director in 2006 and served in that role for seven years before retiring.
Before coming to W&J he served as the head football coach at Parkland High School (1978-82) and Palmerton High School (1975-78).

Special Olympics

Dukett started with Special Olympics decades ago at Lehigh Valley as his son, B.J., became a Special Olympian at the age of seven.
He has been a longtime Special Olympics coach, advocate and volunteer who sits on the board of Special Olympics in Washington County.
Dukett has coached Special Olympics golf, basketball, and worked at the Special Olympics at Penn State.

Player

He was a multisport standout athlete at Phillipsburg (NJ) High School).
At East Stroudsburg University, Dukett was a three-time Honorable Mention All-American quarterback and led the Warriors to the 1968 PSAC co-championship.
The 1969 ECAC Player of the Year, Dukett was inducted into the 1985 ESU Hall of Fame in 1985 and W&J’s Hall of Fame in 2018.

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