Camille Williams officially joined the Cougars' coaching staff in May of 2019.
Having nearly two decades on the bench at various programs, Williams came to the Palouse from the Bay Area of California where she spent one season as the head coach at the Academy of Art University. In one season with the Urban Knights, Williams recruited All-PacWest Team Honorable Mention Lily Perkins as well as Chanel Stuart who finished the year the second-leading scorer in the conference among freshman. Prior to ART U, Williams spent one season as the director of basketball operations at San Francisco after a nine year stretch at Nevada. During her tenure at Nevada as an assistant and later the associate head coach, Williams helped coach the Wolf Pack to their first postseason win in program history in the 2011 WNIT. In addition, Williams was directly responsible for the development of a pair of WNBA draft picks in the post including two-time Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Mimi Mungedi (Tulsa Shock) and Tahnee Robinson (Connecticut Sun). Prior to Nevada, Williams assisted with guard and post player development and defense, served as the co-recruiting coordinator at UC Santa Barbara for three seasons. Williams' move to the Pac-12 will not be her first stint in the conference as she cut her teeth for six years as an assistant coach at California from 2000-05.
A standout two sport captain in basketball as well as track & field at the University of Wisconsin, Williams led the Badgers to a pair of NCAA Tournaments on the court and earned Big Ten All-Star honors in 1993. She was a two-time all-american in the high jump in 1995 and 1996 and competed in the 1996 Olympic Trials. She earned her bachelor's degree in agricultural business management from the Wisconsin in 1996. She then received her master's in educational leadership from Nevada in 2012.
