Our Staff
At Swim With Bill, we are dedicated professionals who are as passionate about competing and excelling in the sport we love as we are about passing on our knowledge to others. We are innovative and forward-thinking, using the latest in technology to push our sport forward, helping make swimmers of all levels more proficient and speeding up the learning curve.
Bill
Owner
Bill Schalz has been coaching and teaching swimming since 1981. After coaching for several years, Bill started the Swim With Bill lesson program and the Academy Bullets Swim Club.
His swimmers have competed at every level including World Championships and the Olympics. His teams have won multiple state championships and is the only Illinois coach to lead an Illinois club to a USA Swimming Junior National Championship. He has also served has Head Coach of the USA Swimming National Camps and Zone Select Camps.
Bill has served on the Board of Directors of Illinois Swimming, Inc. including four years as President, the USA Swimming Board of Directors and the American Swimming Coaches Association Right to Participate Task Force. Bill chaired a USA Swimming Presidential task force that successfully restructured the governance of USA Swiming.
He has been a speaker multiple times at the American Swim Coaches Assn. World Clinic, Swim America Clinic and was a guest lecturer at the European University of Madrid.