Bill Cole, MS, MA, is an internationally recognized expert on peak performance, coaching and the mental game. He was a two-sport athlete at the national level. He has coached at the highest levels of major-league pro sports and big-time college athletics. Bill is a Wall Of Fame Honoree, an award-winning scholar-athlete, and a published author of numerous books and articles.
Bill was the first person in the world to be awarded a Bachelor of Science (with honors) in Sport Psychology. As an undergraduate at SUNY-Buffalo, he was awarded the Albert Zeigler Award for academic excellence, and as a graduating senior, he won the Clifford R. Furnas Award as a University Scholar-Athlete. Bill has been one of the most innovative writers and practitioners of the mental game of sports since the mid 1970's.
He holds a Master of Science in Physical Education with specialization in sport psychology from California State University-Fullerton, and was inducted into Psi Chi, The National Honor Society In Psychology.
Bill is a member of The American College of Sports Medicine. He is also a graduate of Santa Clara University with a Master of Arts degree in counseling psychology