Rogers State University Athletics

Amy Williams begins her fifth season at the helm of Hillcat women’s basketball program.

Williams was named the first head women’s basketball coach at Rogers State University in March of 2007.  In just four seasons she has built a winning program at RSU. She led the Hillcats to a 13-18 record and a seventh place finish in the Sooner Athletic Conference in its first year of competition. A year later, RSU posted 18 victories and finished sixth in the league, narrowly missing out on its first national tournament appearance. In 2009-10, she led the Hillcats to a record of 21-11 and their first postseason victory. RSU knocked off four national ranked opponents and appeared in the Top 25 for the first time in 2009-10.

Last season, Williams led the Hillcats to their first ever appearance in the NAIA National Tournament. RSU also reached the Sooner Athletic Conference Championship game for the first time in 2011.

In only four years at RSU, Williams has coached three All-Americans and holds a home winning percentage of .646 at the Claremore Expo.

Williams joined the Hillcats after successful coaching stints as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator at The University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University. She previously worked as an assistant at the University of Texas-San Antonio and was a graduate assistant at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

At Tulsa, Williams helped the Golden Hurricane claim its first Conference-USA regular season and tournament championships in 2006. The Hurricane also earned its first ever trip to the NCAA tournament and logged its first win in the field of 64, finishing the season with an impressive 26-6 record.

Before joining TU, Williams served as the top assistant at Oklahoma State from 2001-2005. She compiled a number of accolades as the recruiting coordinator at OSU, including being named the 11th ranked recruiting coordinator in the nation based on impact to program and signing the Big XII Conference Newcomer of the Year in 2003. Her 2003 recruiting class ranked 19th in the country according to All-Star Girls Basketball Report.

A native of Spearfish, S.D., Williams was a four-year letter-winner at the University of Nebraska. She earned Academic All-Big XII Conference honors as a senior in 1997-98 and was named a Phillips 66 Student-Athlete of the Week in 1997. After graduating from Nebraska, Williams joined the University of Nebraska-Kearney staff as a graduate assistant. After obtaining a Master of Arts in Education from UNK, she accepted her first full-time coaching position as an assistant at the University of Texas-San Antonio.