the Coach

THE SCHOLARSHIP:

The William F. Huther Memorial Scholarship is awarded to two students in each graduating class who display the qualities of former Auburn High School Guidance Counselor and Coach Bill Huther. Recipients of this scholarship will be student athletes who exemplify outstanding sportsmanship, excellent character, a dedication to service in their school and community and intend to enter the field of education.

ABOUT THE COACH

William "Bill" Huther known as "Coach" grew up in Auburn and graduated from East High School in 1952. He received his Bachelors of Arts in History from Colgate University in 1956 and remained at Colgate the following year to receive his Masters of Arts in Physical Education. Bill went on to serve in the U.S. Army First Division from 1957 to 1959 before coming back to Auburn to teach physical education and health while coaching various sports at Auburn Central High School from 1959 to1970. Following a year teaching abroad in England, Bill returned to become a guidance counselor at Auburn High School from 1970 to his retirement in 1994. Bill often said that teaching was "caught, not taught" and there were no truer words to describe how he treated his work.

Coach was an avid athlete himself in high school and college, during which he was a member of Colgate's 1955 baseball team that played in the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Bill's love for sports continued in his adult years as he played semi-pro basketball for Kufs News, The Italian Village and Pecorello's Market in Utica and taught tennis during summers in Wilmington, DE, Hamilton, Bermuda, and Owasco Country Club. Bill was a five-time Auburn Men's Singles Tennis Champion and the 1991 National Senior Games Men's Singles Tennis Champion (ages 55-59), as well as the National Men's Doubles Tennis Runner-Up the same year. In 2002, Bill was honored to be inducted, alongside his father Joseph (posthumously), to the Auburn High School Athletic Hall of Fame.