After a lengthy career in the dugout of the baseball field, Bill Mathews transitioned into an administrative role in the athletics department following the 2014 season serving as the Assistant Director of Athletics. He was elevated to Associate Director of Athletics for Gameday Operations and Facilities in August 2022. 

In his role as Assistant Director of Athletics, Mathews is a member of the senior management team and oversees risk management and facilities.

In addition to his roles in the athletic department, Mathews has served as a Assistant Professor for psychical education at Eckerd since 1991. 

In April 2017, Mathews received the highest honor for an Eckerd athlete or coach when he was announced as an inductee into the Eckerd Athletics Hall of Fame.  Alongside men's basketball coach Tom Ryan, Mathews was officially inducted into the elite group in May.

Mathews etched his place in history as the athletic program's winningest coach after completing his 24th season.  With 504 total career wins to his credit, the man affectionately referred to as "Skip" first stepped foot on the Eckerd College campus in 1975, and spent parts of three decades serving as head coach for the Tritons.

Mathews has done it all while at Eckerd. He was a student-athlete before becoming an assistant coach as a junior in 1978 joining future Major League Baseball coaching standouts Brian Butterfield (New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Angels) and Carlos Tosca (Toronto Blue Jays manager) along with past San Francisco Giants General Manager Brian Sabean.

Following a four-year stint as an assistant, he worked as a high school teacher and administrator before coming back to Eckerd as the head coach for his first appointment in 1990.

During his span at at the helm, Mathews has been honored as the Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year (1999) and also spent six years as a member of the NCAA Baseball Committee.

In 2011, he became the school's all-time winningest coach after notching career victory No. 437. 

In 2012, he claimed an iconic milestone with win No. 450 vs. Clearwater Christian College and saw another of his student-athletes get selected in the MLB First-Year Player Draft (Joey Cuda).

Off the field, he has made an even bigger impact. In each of his first 24 years as head coach, Eckerd placed more baseball players on the SSC Commissioner's Honor Roll than any other institution.

More than 95 percent of his student-athletes who spent four years in the program have earned their degrees.

Mathews is very active in the local and international baseball scene. He is currently the coaching coordinator of the Tampa Bay Rays community event camps. He has served as the Rays' official scorer for home games since 2008, and is a member of the MLB Advisory Committee On Scoring since 2010. In the spring of 2023, he served as the Official Scorer for the World Baseball Classic final two rounds in Miami. 

He has coached the Polish National Team to two gold and two silver medals and was a former bench coach for the Swedish National Team. He also spent time coaching the Russian, Guatemalan, and Netherland National Teams. Mathews was also a board member of International Sports Group (2000-18), which is responsible for coordinating baseball clinics worldwide from September through February. He also taught coaching certification courses in 10 European and Central American countries. 

Mathews has also directed coaching and player clinics at the Play Ball Baseball Academy in Guatemala City.

From 1980-90, he served as the head baseball and basketball coach at the Canterbury School in St. Petersburg. He was inducted into the Canterbury School of Florida Hall of Fame in 1996. 

Off the field, the Rhode Island native has committed himself to education. Holding a bachelor's degree in management from Eckerd and a master's degree in educational administration from the University of South Florida, Mathews teaches athletic administration courses as well as General Education courses at Eckerd.

He has lived in St. Petersburg for the past 48 years. He and his wife, Karen, have three children: Christopher, Katie, and Zach.