{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Short description|Canadian ice hockey coach (born c.1939)}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Bill Selman | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = c. 1939 | birth_place = Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = North Dakota | player_years1 = 1960–1963 | player_team1 = North Dakota | player_positions = Defenceman | coach_years1 = 1964–1966 | coach_team1 = North Dakota (assistant) | coach_years2 = 1966–1968 | coach_team2 = North Dakota | coach_years3 = 1968–1970 | coach_team3 = Minnesota–Duluth | coach_years4 = 1970–1979 | coach_team4 = St. Louis | coach_years5 = 1979–1980 | coach_team5 = Dayton Gems | coach_years6 = 1981–1983 | coach_team6 = Lake Superior State | coach_years7 = 1982 | coach_team7 = US National Team | overall_record = 277-217-21 ({{winpct|277|217|21}}) | tournament_record = | championships = 1963 National Champion (player)<br />1967 WCHA Champion<br />1967 WCHA Tournament champion<br />1968 WCHA tournament champion<br />1973 CCHA Champion<br />1974 CCHA Tournament champion<br />1975 CCHA Champion<br />1975 CCHA tournament champion<br />1976 CCHA tournament champion<br />1977 CCHA Champion | awards = 1967 WCHA Coach of the Year<br />1977 CCHA Coach of the Year<br />2014 St. Louis Sport Hall of Fame President's Choice Award<br />2016 Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award | coaching_records = }}
'''William G. Selman''' (born c. 1939) is a Canadian retired head coach of men's college, university and professional ice hockey teams.<ref>{{cite news|title=BILL SELMAN|url=http://www.stlshof.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=166&Itemid=688|publisher=St. Louis Sport Hall of Fame|accessdate=2016-07-15}}</ref>
==Career== Bill Selman was a three-year letterman for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, winning a national title with the team in his senior season. After two seasons as an assistant in Grand Forks Selman became the third consecutive assistant coach to be promoted to head coach of the Sioux in 1966.<ref>{{cite news|title=2015-16 North Dakota Media Guide|url=http://www.undsports.com/pdf9/4138306.pdf|publisher=University of North Dakota|accessdate=2016-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918142052/http://www.undsports.com/pdf9/4138306.pdf|archive-date=2016-09-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> Selman led North Dakota to two conference tournament titles in each of his first two seasons, finishing as runners up in 1968. After only two years Selman left his alma mater to take over at Minnesota–Duluth. Two seasons later Selman once again changed universities, this time leading the new Division I program at Saint Louis.
The Billikens would only remain in the upper echelon for nine years but Selman stayed with the team for the entire time being a driving force behind the formation of the CCHA, capturing three conference titles, three conference tournament championships and coaching three future NHL players (Mike Krushelnyski, Mario Faubert and Lindsay Middlebrook). Once Saint Louis ended their program Selman moved on to be the head coach of the IHL's Dayton Gems for the 1979–80 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=30351 |title=Bill Selman Stats and Profile |website=hockeydb.com}}</ref> After a year off Selman was back in the college ranks, this time with the Lake Superior State Lakers. He coached Team USA at the 1982 World Ice Hockey Championships<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iNEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ke4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2343,228396&dq=bill-selman+coach&hl=en Canada Confident of win over Italy: The Ottawa Citizen, April 21, 1982, page 35]</ref> but finished with a disastrous 0-6-1 record that saw the US relegated out of the top bracket. Selman would only coach Lake Superior State for 20 games the following season before retiring from coaching and taking a job with Anheuser-Busch in the sports marketing department.
In his career Selman was named as coach of the year for both the WCHA (1967) and CCHA (1977) while also receiving the 2014 President's Choice Award from the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame and the 2016 Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Lakers coach Bill Selman named Hobey Baker "Legend of College Hockey"|url=http://www.lssulakers.com/sports/m-hockey/2015-16/releases/selmanhobeybaker|publisher=Lake Superior State Athletics|date=2016-02-16|accessdate=2016-07-15}}</ref>
==Head coaching record==
===College=== {{CBB Yearly Record Start |type=coach |conference= |postseason= |poll=no }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|North Dakota Fighting Sioux}} |color = color:white; background:#009A44; {{box-shadow border|a|#000000|2px}} |startyear = 1966 |conflong = Western Collegiate Hockey Association |conference = WCHA |endyear = 1968 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = confboth | season = 1966–67 | name = North Dakota | overall = 19-10-0 | conference = 16-6-0 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = NCAA consolation game (loss) }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 1967–68 | name = North Dakota | overall = 20-10-3 | conference = 13-8-1 | confstanding = 3rd | postseason = NCAA runner-up }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = North Dakota | overall = 39-20-3 | confrecord = 29-14-1 }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs}} |color = color:white; background:#7A0019; {{box-shadow border|a|#FFCC33|2px}} |startyear = 1968 |conflong = Western Collegiate Hockey Association |conference = WCHA |endyear = 1970 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1968–69 | name = Minnesota–Duluth | overall = 6-23-0 | conference = 3-19-0 | confstanding = 8th | postseason = WCHA regional semifinals }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1969–70 | name = Minnesota–Duluth | overall = 13-15-1 | conference = 10-13-1 | confstanding = 8th | postseason = WCHA regional semifinals }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Minnesota–Duluth | overall = 19-38-1 | confrecord = 13-32-1 }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|Saint Louis Billikens}} |color = color:white; background:#003DA5; {{box-shadow border|a|#C8C9C7|2px}} |startyear = 1970 |conflong = NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey) |conference = Independent |endyear = 1971 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1970–71 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 9-19-2 | conference = | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Saint Louis | overall = 9-19-2 | confrecord = }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|Saint Louis Billikens}} |color = color:white; background:#003DA5; {{box-shadow border|a|#C8C9C7|2px}} |startyear = 1971 |conflong = Central Collegiate Hockey Association |conference = CCHA |endyear = 1979 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1971–72 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 15-15-3 | conference = 7-3-2 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = CCHA runner-up }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 1972–73 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 27-11-0 | conference = 13-3-0 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = CCHA runner-up }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 1973–74 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 28-12-0 | conference = 5-3-0 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = CCHA Champion }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = confboth | season = 1974–75 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 26-13-1 | conference = 5-3-0 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = CCHA Champion }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference tournament | season = 1975–76 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 24-15-2 | conference = 10-5-1 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = CCHA Champion }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | season = 1976–77 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 27-11-1 | conference = 13-2-1 | confstanding = 1st | postseason = CCHA runner-up }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1977–78 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 21-17-2 | conference = 10-10-0 | confstanding = 2nd | postseason = CCHA runner-up }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1978–79 | name = Saint Louis | overall = 16-16-3 | conference = 9-13-2 | confstanding = 5th | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Saint Louis | overall = 184-110-12 | confrecord = 72-42-6 }} {{CIH yearly record subhead |name = {{color|white|Lake Superior State Lakers}} |color = color:white; background:#003F87; {{box-shadow border|a|#FFC61E|2px}} |startyear = 1981 |conflong = Central Collegiate Hockey Association |conference = CCHA |endyear = 1982 |}} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1981–82 | name = Lake Superior State | overall = 19-17-3 | conference = 11-15-2 | confstanding = 5th | postseason = CCHA Quarterfinals }} {{CBB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | season = 1982–83 | name = Lake Superior State | overall = 7-13-0† | conference = 5-11-0† | confstanding = | postseason = }} {{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Lake Superior State | overall = 26-30-3 | confrecord = 16-26-2 }} {{CBB Yearly Record End |overall = 277-217-21 |confrecord = }} † <small>Selman resigned in December 1982</small> <ref name = media>{{cite news|title=2013-14 Lake Superior State Lakers Media Guide 28-46|url=http://static.psbin.com/2/5/34iazu3je4hep7/2013-14_hockey_media_28-46.pdf|publisher=Lake Superior State Lakers|accessdate=2014-07-05}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== * {{HockeyDB|30351}}
{{s-start}} {{s-ach}} {{succession box | before= John MacInnes| title=WCHA Coach of the Year | years= 1966–67| after= Murray Armstrong}} {{succession box | before= Ron Mason| title=CCHA Coach of the Year | years= 1976–77| after= Ron Mason}} {{s-sport}} {{succession box | title=Dayton Gems (IHL) Head Coach | before=Larry Mickey | years=1979–1980| after=none}} {{succession box | before = Tim Taylor | title = Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award | years = 2016 | after = Bill Riley Jr.}} {{s-end}}
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