Bill Kangas enters his 37th year at the helm of the Williams College men's ice hockey program in 2026-27.

Kangas led the Ephs to their first-ever NESCAC Championship in the 2025-26 season. During the 2024-25 season, he earned his 450th career victory during a 5-4 win at Plattsburgh State on Jan. 18.

Kangas was hired in the spring of 1989 to succeed long-time Eph head hockey coach Bill McCormick who retired with 329 wins. Kangas guided the Ephs to their first winning season in 10 years and was named the New England Division II/III Coach of the Year in 1991. In his 26th season behind the Eph bench, Kangas collected his 330th career victory, becoming the all-time winningest hockey coach in Eph history.

Kangas owns Williams' records for most wins in a season (19 – 2015-16), longest unbeaten streak (10 – 2003-04) and second longest unbeaten streak (9 – 2005-06). Additionally, Kangas' 2005-06 Eph team tied the program's in-season record for most consecutive wins (8) set in 1961-62 under Bill McCormick and 1993-94 also under Kangas.

In 2015-16, Williams finished NESCAC regular season in first place. In the 16 years of league standings, it was the first time the Ephs won the regular season title. The 2019-20 team duplicated this accomplishment, securing the NESCAC regular season No. 1 seed. Also, this same Ephs' team earned Williams' first-ever NCAA berth. Hosting the NCAA First Round in the Lansing Chapman Rink, Williams beat Salem State, 7-1, advancing to the quarterfinals, before dropping a hard fought 2-1 decision to SUNY Geneseo.

During the 2017-18 season, Kangas was on sabbatical and Assistant Coach Mike Monti took over in his absence.

Also of note, Kangas served as the Williams women's interim golf coach from 2014-16, leading the Ephs to a NCAA Championship in 2014-15 and a fifth-place finish in 2015-16, earning the coaching honor as the 2015 WGCA East Region Coach of the Year. In returning to women's golf as an assistant coach in 2021, Kangas was recognized for his efforts with the team as the 2025 WGCA Division III Women's Golf Pride Assistant Coach of the Year.

Kangas graduated in 1982 from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts in Zoology. He also won the Wasson Award as the top men's senior student-athlete at UVM and received a master's in education from North Adams State College in 1994.

Bill Kangas, Men's Ice Hockey 
34 years(+), 464-338-75 (.572 winning percentage)

On January 17, 2012, with an 8-2 win over Wentworth, Kangas became just the second coach at Williams to record 300 wins in men's ice hockey.

Kangas took a year sabbatical in 2017-18 and there was no hockey played during the COVID year in 2020-21.

Little Three Championships: 15 outright and 5 ties
Won: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2016 & 2020
Ties: 1990, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015 & 2018

NESCAC Regular Season No. 1 Seed: 2015-16 and 2019-20

1991 – New England Division II/III Coach of the Year

1994 – ECAC East Champions

1994 – National Shriners All-Star Game Coach

2006 – Co-NESCAC Coach of the Year

2006 – Finalist for Division III National Coach of the Year

2016 - NESCAC Regular Season Champions

2016 - NCAA Division III Elite Eight

2016 - NESCAC Coach of the Year

2016 - Finalist for Division IIIf National Coach of the Year

2019-20 - NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Coach of the Year

6 – All-Americans Coached

All-Americans
Mark Yannetti '94 (Second Team All-American, 1993-94)
Marc Siegel '96 (First Team All-American (1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95)
David Haimson '00 (First Team All-American (1998-99, 1999-2000)
Alex Smigelski '10 (First Team All-American (2009-10)
Justin Troiani '12 (First Team All-American (2011-12)
Zander Masucci '16 (First Team All-American (2015-16)

Players of the Year
Marc Siegel '95 1993-94 ECAC East Player of the Year
David Haimson '00 1997-98 ECAC East Player of the Year
Alex Smigelski '10 2009-10 NESCAC Player of the Year
Zander Masucci '16 2015-16 NESCAC Player of the Year

ALEXANDER SMIGELSKI III '10
Mountain Lakes, N.J.
2010 Pittsburgh Penguins Rookie Camp Selectee
2010 Pittsburgh Penguins Development Camp
2009-10 All-American First Team
2009-10 NESCAC Player of the Year
2009-10 All-NESCAC First Team
2009-10 New England Journal Division III Player of the Year
2009-10 All-New England First Team
2009-10 All-USCHO.com First Team
2009-10 National Player of the Year Finalist

ZACHARY MILLER
Bridgeton, N.J.
2010 Class Valedictorian and Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4jDi2ZJLU0
2010 Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist
2010 Williams College Martin-Wilson Fellowship to study at Oxford's Worcester College

WILLIAM BRUCE
Nashville, Tenn.
2008 Hockey Humanitarian Award Winner
2008 John Wooden Cup Recipient from Athletes for a Better World:  Bruce (Nashville, TN) recently received the Wooden Cup from Athletes for a Better World as the nation's top role model among college athletes. He has previously been honored by Williams with the Grosvenor Cup, Campus Life Dedication to Service Award and in the community by the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition for his involvement with 17 different community service organizations he has created or is directly involved in.