BIO

Bill started as a coach for his daughter Nicky in the softball leagues in Plover, Wisconsin.  
 
Bill and Nicky sought out local pitching instructors and learned the finer points of pitching from:
Rod Runyan the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point pitching coach,
Jim Piotrowski the Pacelli High School pitching coach
and his daughter Pacelli pitcher Jenny Piotrowski who won state titles and pitched for the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay.  
 
Bill also attended pitching clinics by:
Michelle Smith (U.S.A. Olympic Gold Medalist Pitcher, pitching instructor and ESPN softball analyst)
and
George Jones professional softball pitcher and teacher.

(Please see the Video page for information on videos produced by Michelle Smith and Jennie Finch).  
 

1998  
 
Bill joined the Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) softball coaching staff as the pitching coach for new head coach Tom Drohner.
Bill developed state championship pitchers that complimented the hitting and defense directed by head coach Tom Drohner and assistant coach Todd VanderLoop.
SPASH was runner-up state champions in 2000 and went on to win state championships in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2011.
 
 
2008  
 
Bill resigned from SPASH softball to concentrate on coaching young pitchers and assisting his daughter Nicky, head coach of P.J. Jacobs Freshmen softball team.  
 
In 2009, 2010, 2011 Bill returned to SPASH softball to coach (part time) one of his longtime pupils, Kelly Franks.
SPASH won two Wisconsin State Division I Championships and Kelly went on to record setting years as a starting pitcher at St. Cloud State University, a NCAA Division II school.
 
 
While a SPASH pitching coach, Bill ran free pitching camps every August, helping develop younger pitchers with proper mechanics. Due to WIAA regulations however, Bill could not coach girls during the fall and winter, after they entered the SPASH softball program in 9th grade. Fall and winter are critical times when pitchers are working on mechanics and additional pitches.
So Bill resigned and began coaching girls fastpitch year round.

September 2012
Bill opened Bill Mansur Pitching an indoor fastpitch instruction facility for pitchers 8 and up in the Stevens Point Industrical Park.

November 2017
Bill Mansur Pitching moved to a new facility. Teaming up with Chris Brooks of Central Door Solutions to create Brooks-Mansur Playhouse, a 80 x 60 foot facility with 4 pitching lanes expandable to 5 by using a batting cage. Two batting cages and two hitting-Tee areas.
This facility is now known as H.I.T.T.

November 2020
Bill Mansur Pitching moved to a new private facility in the Stevens Point Industrial Park, just across the alley from his first facility. With COVID-19 cases increasing and the number of teams using the facility increasing to 13, Bill decided a private facility was better for his clients, their families, Bill, and Bill's family. Bill is not sharing the facility with other people making it safer for all. It also allows more availabile time for pitchers to have lessons.
 
 
With his experience Bill has helped many different styles of pitchers and has been inventive in developing techniques to correct flaws in any motion or form mechanic.
He teaches some of the same warm-up, drills and pitches that led to 7 state chamiponships.

Since opening the year-round facilities pitchers have come from as far as Elk Mound in the east, Madison in the south, New Berlin and Oshkosh to the West and Upper Michigan to the North to work with Bill.  
 
He also gives clinics to pitchers throughout Wisconsin.