HEAD COACH:
Diane Williams
Office: (585) 389-2190
E-mail: dwillia4@naz.edu

Returning for her ninth season as Nazareth's women's basketball coach, Diane Williams hopes to steer the Golden Flyers back on a successful path in 2006-07 and restore the winning tradition that has produced positive records in 12 of the last 14 seasons.

Williams has a record of 111-93 through eight seasons with four ECAC Tournament berths.
The Golden Flyers finished 15-11 in her first season (1988-99) and followed that up with records of 19-9 and 18-9 with each season culminating in trips to the NYSWCAA and ECAC Tournaments. The 2000-01 season also was highlighted by the Golden Flyers' first-ever JPMorgan Chase Tournament title.

A native of Eastchester, N.Y., Williams is a 1986 graduate of SUNY Geneseo, where she excelled in basketball and softball. For the basketball team, she was the Knights' Most Valuable Player for two seasons and was a two-time All-Greater Rochester selection by the Democrat and Chronicle. She was the recipient of the Louise Kuhl Award as Geneseo's Female Athlete of the Year for '86-87 and was inducted into Geneseo's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Williams earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Geneseo and a Master's degree in Recreation from SUNY Cortland. She served as an assistant coach at Geneseo for one season, then moved on to Cortland, where she assisted for two seasons. Her most recent coaching assignments, prior to Nazareth, were as an assistant at RIT in 1996-97 and at the University of Rochester in 1997-98. At UR, Williams also served as Game Management Coordinator.

Williams has additional experience as a Chemical Dependency Counselor and Recreation Therapist at Parkridge Hospital in Rochester and as an Athletic Supervisor for the Department of Recreation in Virginia Beach, Va. She also has been active as a certified official for high school soccer and basketball.

In addition to her duties as head coach, Williams teaches physical education classes and assists with game management operations during the fall and spring seasons.