Biography

Vital Statistics

Birth date:  August 1, 1962               Birth place:  

Current Residence:                        Atlanta, Georgia

Height:  5'8"                                   Weight:  120 lbs

Occupation:                                   Software Development Manager 

Began Skiing:  7                             Began Competing:  26

Events:  Slalom, Tricks, Jump

Division:  MP1 Division (Multi Plegic – Level 1 – upper chest, highest level of injury-unable to stand to ski) uses a sit ski.  Paralyzed in diving accident at age 18.

Sponsors:  BellSouth, Shepherd Center, Connelly Skis

Hobbies: Scuba Diving, Sky Diving, Snow Skiing, Rugby

Career Highlights

• Silver Medal as US TEAM Member at ’01 World Championships in Australia
• Individual Gold Medal for Overall ’01 Worlds
• Individual Gold Medal for Jump '01 Worlds
• Individual Silver Medal for Slalom '01 Worlds
• Individual Bronze Medal for Tricks '01 Worlds
• 2000 National Overall Champion
• 2000 National Slalom Champion
• 2000 National Jump Champion
• 2000 National Tricks Champion
• Gold Medal as US TEAM Member at ’99 World Championships in England
• Individual Gold Medal for Jump ’99 Worlds
• Set a World Record in Jump '99 Worlds
• Individual Silver Medal for Tricks ’99 Worlds
• Individual Bronze Medal for Slalom '99 Worlds
• Attended every US National event since 1990, except one
• __ Time World Record Holder
• __ Time National Champion
• __ Time World Champion

Best Performance  Slalom 2 @ 30 mph  Tricks 400 points  Jump 45 feet

Records  

World Record in Jump

Ski Club Affiliation

Shepherd Center, One Leg Lake

Future Career Plans

Retire

Most fun skiing experience

Traveling to all world championships

People I look up to or who have helped me

Phil Martin, Steve Hornsey, Randy Robinson

Bill, aka "Super-Quad" is a 12 time National Champion and a Current World Record Holder.  He is never satisfied with existing performances, he's always looking to set a record.  

Bill works at Bell South as a software development manager when not skiing.  He is also an Honorary National Director of WaterSkiers with Disabilities Association (WSDA), serves on the WSDA Bylaws Committee, the Technical/Rules Committee, and he's the IPC Wheelchair Sports & USOC Liason (as part of the International Activities Committee of WSDA)    

Among the skiers Bill's also known as "Turbo"; accompanying Bill to the '99 Worlds was the cutest "Furby" any of us had ever seen . . . she was only 6 weeks old and an absolute traveling trooper:)

That's baby Meredith Furbish in KeNyA's arms.  (She didn't have enough hair to dye.)   You can see Daddy isn't too far away! We may have been in England, but he's drinking good old Coca Cola.

She's even cuter now, and we learned she's expecting a sibling a little later this year (2001)!

That's Bill and Meredith at the 2001 Worlds (she sure grew!) 

To the right is Mrs. Furbish (Kathy) and Meredith.  Perhaps in part to the support of his family Bill did well at Worlds.  Not as well as he wanted, but conditions just didn't permit much better performances that what were witnessed.A last minute kiss and word of encouragement before a ski ride:)

Bill won the Gold for Overall, Gold in Jump, Silver in Slalom and Bronze in Trick.  There seemed to be an error in the medals presentation for Bill's Trick division.  Bill said he didn't say anything because he'd never won a third before and didn't know how they did things for third.  (Bill has either won gold or silver before, Bronze was something he wasn't used to:) 

In addition to his skiing greatness Bill exposes any and all to the sport of waterSkiing. He introduced fellow TEAM mates Stephany Glassing and Aric Fine to the sport of waterSkiing.  Aric's a World Champion/World Record Holder, Steph's planning on setting a World Jump Record at the 2003 World Championships . . . hopefully she'll get decent conditions so she can meet her goal:)