William Spencer is a stuntman, freerunner and training partner of Levi Meeuwenberg, who competed on the first two seasons of American Ninja Warrior. In the qualifying round, despite his young age and relative inexperience with free-running, he surprisingly blazed through the course and finished with a time of 33 seconds, the fastest time in American Ninja Warrior history.
In the semi-finals, he again got the fastest time; 1:23 seconds, mostly due to an extremely fast pace up the Cargo Climb. In the finals, he got second in his group behind Levi Meeuwenberg. However, he collapsed due to heat exhaustion after the first challenge, was unable to continue and subsequently disqualified placing 15th overall.
He returned to compete on American Ninja Warrior 2, where, despite moving at a more cautious pace than last year, he completed the qualifying round in 8th place. But in the semi-finals, he struggled on the Rope Swing, and ultimately failed the Salmon Ladder after struggling to keep the bar even and eventually losing his grip. He placed 17th overall and did not move on, after being eliminated by Shane Daniels.
He has not competed since.
Trivia[]
- He has been a stunt double for many movies such as Spider-Man 1, 2, and No Way Home.
- In both American Ninja Warrior and American Ninja Warrior 2, his age was erroneously displayed as 26 and 28 respectively, which would contradict his known birthday and age in both competitions.
- His actual age during those times were 25 and 26, respectively.
- Given that the first season's filming dates started at late August of 2009 and that the second season started in early August 2010, there is also no way that he could have had a 2 year age difference between the two seasons.