Grant Williams made his return to The Hill as an assistant coach with Lady Topper Soccer in February of 2022. His primary duties will include training, mentoring and developing field players.
Williams previously served as an assistant coach at WKU, his alma mater, from 2006-09. The Lady Toppers were 40-13-7 during his time with the squad, including winning a regular season Sun Belt Conference title in 2007. Williams helped coach 13 All-Conference players, one Player of the Year and one Academic All-American during that span.
Most recently, WIlliams was the head coach at Southern Illinois. He was tasked with building the program from scratch as the first head coach in the program's history. He was hired by the Salukis in October of 2018 and the team competed for the first time in the fall of 2019.
Williams spent 13 years as a Division I assistant before taking the reigns at SIU. His last stop before Carbondale was with Evansville, where he spent six seasons. The Purple Aces won two conference championships and advanced to the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The squad also made an appearance in the MVC Tournament championship match three times in his six seasons. He coached 24 All-Conference players, 11 All-Freshmen team selections, three Goalkeepers of the Year, plus 14 All-Tournament selections and 12 All-Scholar team picks in his time with Evansville. In 2012, Evansville was award the MVC Coaching Staff of the Year award.
Prior to Evansville, WIlliams coached three seasons at Eastern Illinois. During that time, the Panthers produced 10 All-Conference players and a pair of CoSIDA Academic All-Americans. His first Division I job was with WKU.
Williams holds a United States Soccer Federation National "B" Coaching License. He also earned an NSCAA Regional Goalkeeping diploma in 2006. In 2010 and 2011, he worked camps at the University of Illinois, Notre Dame and Penn State. Williams served as the assistant director of Southern Kentucky Soccer (2004-07), a staff coach in the Kentucky ODP program (2003-04, 2007) and a head coach in the SKY Soccer Club (2002-07). He also worked with the boys' varsity and junior varsity teams at Bowling Green High School from 2000-05 after volunteering during the 1997-98 school year.
Williams earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from WKU in 2004 and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Evansville in 2016.
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Beyond The Hill podcast (10/11/22)
