Bill Pepin’s girls basketball and volleyball teams at Warren High School won more one hundred and fifty games and numerous divisional and state championships.  While in Warren, he was named Coach of the Year five times.

His Warren coaching career started when he mentored the Mary V. Quirk Junior High School boys basketball team in 1970 and 1971.  After serving as the assistant coach of Warren High School’s boys basketball five, he became the Quirk football coach in 1974.  (“Pat Abbruzzi told me that I had to do it.”)

After a ten-year hiatus, Bill took over the reins of the Warren High girls volleyball team and led them to an 82-29 record between 1984 and 1990.  His teams won the Class B East Championship in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1990 (when they were undefeated during the regular season).  In 1987 they were the State Class B Runners-Up, while the following year they captured the Class B Championship. 

Bill was named either the Class B East or Class B (1988) Coach of the Year three times.

A year after becoming the girls volleyball coach, Bill also became the coach of the Warren High girls basketball team, and from 1985 to 1990 his teams compiled a record of eighty-seven wins and forty-seven losses.  These girls won the Class C title in 1986, 1987 (regular season), and 1988 and the Class C North Championship in 1990.  In recognition of his success Bill received Coach of the Year honors in both 1986 and 1987.

When the merger of Warren and Bristol High Schools was announced, Bill decided that it was time to move on, and he became the girls basketball coach at his home-town Narragansett High School.  While there his teams have won many divisional and state championships.

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