Staff Directory
- Title:
- Senior Associate Athletic Director
- Email:
- Phone:
- (203) 582-8624
A member of Quinnipiac’s athletic department since 1978, Bill Mecca has fulfilled a variety of roles in his 40-plus year tenure in Hamden.
Mecca is in his 27th year as Senior Associate Athletic Director. He is responsible for all internal operations of the department, including but not limited to supervision of scheduling, facilities, game officials, game operations, sports medicine, strength and conditioning and strategic planning.
From 1978–91, he was an assistant men’s basketball coach, head men’s tennis coach and assistant director of athletics under the legendary Burt Kahn. In 1991, Mecca was named Head Men’s Basketball Coach and served five seasons before being promoted to his current role. He also served as Interim Athletic Director during the respective transitions in both the summer of 1995 and 2015.
For his continued success as a leader in the Department of Athletics, Mecca was inducted into the Quinnipiac University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009 and was presented with an honorary lifetime membership into the Quinnipiac Alumni Association in 2013. He was inducted into the MAAC Honor Role in a ceremony and exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015 and the following year received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his volunteer service to the youth of this country from then President Barrack Obama.
In addition to his administrative duties, Mecca is the founder of the highly successful Bill Mecca Roundball Golf Tournament, which has generated more than $300,000 in contributions to the athletic department over the past 30 years as well as the Director of the Quinnipiac All Sports and Academic camp.
An accomplished speaker and broadscaster, Mecca has provided radio and television color analysis for the Quinnipiac men’s and women’s basketball games for the past 30 years on a variety of platforms which include AM-1220 WQUN, NESN, SNY, ESPN3 and ESPN+. Mecca was also the co-writer and co-host of the immensely popular and three-time Emmy-nominated, “Bobcats Unleashed in HD”.
A 1978 graduate of Niagara University, Mecca earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration while playing four years of basketball under long time Utah Jazz president Frank Layden. He and his wife Jeanne have two children, Christina and Nicole.
