Central Washington University Athletics

Kelly Bills was named the Offensive Coordinator for Central Washington Wildcats Football on March 13, 2019. Bills also serves as the Quarterbacks Coach and Academic Coordinator for the Wildcats Football program.

Prior to joining CWU, Bills was an assistant coach at FCS Division I Weber State University since February 2016. In 2019, he was the Wildcat quarterbacks coach after having coached the wide receivers each of the last two seasons.

In three seasons with Weber State, Bills helped guide the Wildcats to a 28-11 record and a berth to the FCS Playoffs every year. In 2019, he helped guide the Weber State Wildcats to a 10-3 season, including a 7-1 record in Big Sky play. The Wildcats reached the NCAA FCS quarterfinals where they were defeated by No. 7 Maine.
 
Weber State quarterbacks threw for 2,348 yards and 19 touchdowns under Bills' tutelage in 2018. Jake Constantine, the Wildcats' starting quarterback, completed 61 percent of his passes and held an efficiency rating of 125.7. 
 
Among the Wildcat quarterbacks, Bills coached former Royal City standout and 1A Player of the Year, Kaden Jenks, who guided Royal City to two state championships under Wiley Allred.
 
In 2017, Bills helped lead Weber State to its best season in school history. The Wildcats won the Big Sky Conference title, won a school-record 11 games, won two games in the FCS Playoffs and were ranked in the top five in the nation, the highest ranking in school history. Weber State also had eight players earn All-American honors, the most ever, and had 17 players earn Big Sky All-Conference honors, including a league-best eight on the first team. 
 
Under his coaching, freshman wide receiver Rashid Shaheed earned All-America and first team All-Big Sky honors and senior Drew Batchelor earned All-Conference honors. 
 
In 2016, Bills helped lead Weber State to a 7-5 record, a third-place finish in the Big Sky Conference and WSU's first trip to the FCS Playoffs in seven years. Bills coached senior wide receiver Cameron Livingston to honorable mention All-Big Sky honors. 
 
Bills came to Weber State after spending the 2015 season as an offensive graduate assistant coach at Utah State. He assisted the Aggie offensive coaches in all daily football operations.
 
He spent two seasons, 2012-14, as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Willamette University, a Division III school in Salem, Ore. Under his direction, Willamette averaged 42 points per game and led the conference in total offense. The team also set 23 individual offensive records. He coached 11 All-Conference players in his two seasons, including Dylan Jones who earned first-team All-American and Northwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors. Jones also led the nation in rushing yards per game at 177.7. 
 
Prior to Williamette, Bills spent five seasons, 2008-12, as an assistant coach at his alma mater, BYU, under head coach Bronco Mendenhall. Bills was the offensive quality control coach for the Cougars during the 2008 and 2009 seasons and also worked with wide receivers and quarterbacks. From 2010-12, he was an offensive graduate assistant at BYU, coaching quarterbacks and the offensive line. During his time with the Cougars, BYU posted a 46-19 record and went to five-straight bowl games.

He began his college playing career as a quarterback at Southern Utah where he spent the 2003 season under head coach Gary Andersen. Following an LDS Church mission, he transferred to BYU where he played running back and special teams for two seasons from 2006-07.

Bills is a native of Littleton, Colo., and graduated from Arapahoe High School where he set school passing records while throwing for 25 touchdowns as a senior. He earned a bachelor's degree in History from BYU in 2011. He and his wife Emily have two boys, Brooks and Cooper.