Clint Williams enters his third season on the Morehead State women’s basketball coaching staff after joining the program prior to the 2018-19 season. In addition to his role as an assistant coach, he serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator.
Coaching the team’s post players, Williams has overseen the Ohio Valley Conference’s top blocking team, ranking in the top-10 in the NCAA in total blocks and blocks per game in each of his first two seasons at Morehead State.
In addition to Morehead State’s place as the top blocking team in the OVC, the Eagles have also placed among the league’s top rebounding teams under Williams’s tutelage.
In 2019-20, he guided Ariel Kirkwood to OVC Defensive Player of the Year honors—the first such honors for a Morehead State Eagle—as she ranked 15th in the NCAA in blocked shots and blocked shots per game. Her 82 blocks ranked as the most among guards in the country and fourth amongst NCAA freshman.
Kirkwood also ranked as one of the top rebounders in the conference, placing third in the league in both total rebounds (256) and rebounds per game (8.5). As a team, Morehead State ranked fourth in the OVC in rebounding (1,196) and rebounds per game (39.87), both totals that ranked amongst the top 100 teams in the country.
In 2018-19, Williams was a big part of the Eagles’ success, helping guide the team to a modern-era record 24 wins and the program’s second-ever berth in the WNIT. He was also instrumental in helping the program pick up its first postseason victory, providing the pregame scouting report for Morehead State’s opening round victory over Ohio State.
Morehead State’s success in 2018-19 was due in large part to the team’s ranking as the top blocking and rebounding team in the OVC. The Eagles ranked ninth in the NCAA in blocks (188) and 10th in blocks per game (5.4) while leading the OVC in total rebounds (1,421) and ranking second in rebounds per game (40.6).
Tierra McGowan led the way in the post for Morehead State during the 2018-19 campaign, leading the OVC and ranking 10th in the NCAA in offensive rebounds per game, pulling in an average of four offensive boards per game. She also ranked in the top-five in the conference in total rebounds, grabbing 270 boards and rebounds per game, averaging 8.7 boards per contest. Additionally, McGowan ranked sixth in the league in total blocks, deterring 36 shots on the season.
In Williams’ two seasons at Morehead State, the Eagles are the lone team in the OVC to have three players ranked in the top-10 on the conference’s total blocks leaderboard each of the past two seasons, with players ranked second, seventh, and ninth in 2019-20 and fourth, sixth, and 10th in 2018-19.
Alongside his duties at Morehead State, Williams also served as the head women’s basketball coach for the U.S. Virgin Islands Senior Women’s National Team, leading the team to a berth in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. With the Virgin Islands National Team, he is responsible for selecting the team’s players and organizing multiple facets of the team’s program.
During his time with the program, Williams has helped coach the team to a gold medal at the 2017 FIBA Centrobasket Tournament, defeating the world’s eighth-ranked Brazil at the FIBA America’s Tournament.
Prior to Morehead State, Williams was a three-year member of the Moberly (Mo.) Area Community College coaching staff, helping the Greyhounds to a 73-23 overall record. In his final season, Moberly Area captured NJCAA Region 16 and District K championships, finishing 32-1 with a school-record 96.9 winning percentage.
At Moberly, Williams coached Anisha George to 2016-17 NJCAA Region 16 Player of the Year honors and a spot as a Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Honorable Mention NJCAA All-American.
Before joining the Moberly Area coaching staff, Williams spent a lone season at NCAA Division II Merrimack (Mass.) College, helping the Warriors to a 14-13 record during the 2014-15 campaign.
Williams also spent a pair of seasons working on the men’s basketball staff at his alma matter Tuskegee (Ala.), helping the Golden Tigers to a 2013-14 Southern Intercollegiate Conference championship and a spot in the NCAA Division II Tournament Elite Eight.
Williams graduated from Arkansas Baptist College in 2010 with an associate’s degree in African American Leadership before transferring to finish up his basketball career at Tuskegee. Following his time at Tuskegee, he played professionally for the American Basketball Association’s Georgia Gwizzlies and the Kings team in the New Breed Basketball Association in the Virgin Islands.
He graduated from Tuskegee in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
