William O'Connell joined the Duke women's tennis staff in January of 2020 as a volunteer assistant coach.
A product of Fiji, O’Connell is an International Tennis Federation (ITF) advanced coach who has worked with performance juniors and professional players in the United States, Fiji, Australia, Spain, India and the United Kingdom.
In addition to his work with the ITF, O’Connell has three years of coaching at the collegiate level where he was a head coach under the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and a Division I assistant coach at Presbyterian College.
O’Connell has six years of collegiate tennis playing experience under his belt that includes time with New Mexico Military Institute, Presbyterian College and the University of Nottingham.
He also spent time with Tennis Fiji where he was a coach, player and executive member. At Tennis Fiji, he represented Pacific Oceania in multiple Asia Oceania Zone Group III Davis Cups and was a regional competition multi-medalist representing Fiji. As a committee member since 2016, he served as the national delegate for the 2019 US Open and the 2018 ITF Annual General Meeting (AGM).