Billy Gazonas

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Billy Gazonas
Personal information
Full name	Billy M. Gazonas
Date of birth
Place of birth	,
Height	5’ 5”
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth clubs
1973-1977	Hartwick College
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1978-1980 1981 1981-1982	Tulsa Roughnecks Calgary Boomers New York Arrows	57 (4) 11 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Billy Gazonas is a former U.S. soccer midfielder.

Gazonas played soccer on the boy’s team at St. Anthony’s High School in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from St. Anthony’s in 1973 and entered Hartwick College that fall where he played on the school’s mens soccer team. Hartwick had a dominant team during Gazonas four years at the school. His freshman year, Hartwick lost to Howard in the NCAA post-season tournament semifinals. In 1976, Hartwick made it to the semifinals before losing to Indiana. However, his senior year, Hartwick made it to the championship game where it defeated the University of San Francisco 2-1 to take the NCAA title. Gazones was team captain. That year, Gazonas was named as a first team All American and won the Hermann Trophy winner as the best collegiate player of the year. This game Hartwick its second consecutive Hermann Trophy winner as Glenn Myernick had won it the year prior.

The Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League selected Gazonas in the 1977 NASL college draft. He played three seasons as a creative midfielder for the Roughnecks. After the 1980 season, Gazonas moved to the Calgary Boomers for its one season in the NASL. By the end of the 1981 season, the NASL was beginning to contract and Gazonas, who had played in the NASL indoor seasons, jumped to the New York Arrows of Major Indoor Soccer League. That year the Arrows won the MISL championship.

After retiring from playing, Gazonas coached professionally.

Hartwick University inducted Gazonas into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.