William & Mary Athletics

Mike Williams enters his fourth year with the Tribe and was promoted to associate head coach during the 2024-25 campaign. He assists with all training, recruiting and administrative aspects of running the Tribe's nationally recognized program.
 
Since Williams joined the Tribe, the team has captured a CAA Championship; seen to three individual CAA postseason honors, including two CAA Swimmers of the Year; and sent a pair of swimmers to the NCAA Championships. In addition, both the men’s and women’s teams have each earned CSCAA Academic All-America Team Honors in every semester since Williams’ arrival, continuing the W&M tradition of academic excellence.
 
In 2022-23, Tribe swimmers earned two conference year-end honors as Katie Stevenson was tabbed the CAA Swimmer of the Year and Sophia Heilen was named the CAA Rookie Swimmer of the Year. The Tribe women's team were runners-up in the 2023 CAA Championships, capturing victories in seven events (100 Free; 100, 200 Fly; 100, 200 Breast; 200, 400 Medley Relay). Tribe swimmers broke 13 program records and four CAA records in Williams’ second season with the program.
 
In Williams’ first year with the Tribe, the women’s team secured its first CAA Championship since 2017. The 2021-22 season was capped with a CAA title as the women’s team won six events (50, 100 Free; 200 Breast; 100 Back; 800 Free Relay; 200 Medley Relay) at the championship meet. Missy Cundiff was named the CAA Swimmer of the Year following the 2022 season, marking the first time since 2008 a Tribe swimmer earned the title.
 
Williams joined the William & Mary swimming staff as an assistant coach in 2021-22 after a strong career in the club and collegiate coaching ranks.

Williams is no stranger to W&M and the Colonial Athletic Association, swimming and coaching at UNCW before embarking on a very successful club coaching career.  Most recently, Williams spent the last year in Williamsburg coaching with the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins club at all levels and age groups.  He also coached with the Virginia Gators swim club as a Senior and National-level coach, mentoring athletes from the later stages of high school and in college.  Williams' recruited athletes went to a number of regional and national powers, including but not limited to W&M, UNCW, Virginia Tech, Virginia, N.C. State, and Texas.
 
Prior to making the move up to Virginia, Williams spent two years as the head swim coach at the Cape Fear Aquatic Club in North Carolina from 2016-2018.  During his tenure, Williams had three athletes qualify for the YMCA National Championships for the first time in club history, and his charges set nearly 100 club all-time records.  He also helped more than triple the club size, from 30 members to 94 in the first year as head coach, as well as managing club-wide fundraising events and budgets.  Williams got his start in coaching as an age-group coach with the Waves of Wilmington (2013-14) and at the Marlins of Raleigh (2014-15), instructing beginning swimmers from ages 8-12 and assisting with the leadership of older age groups as well.
 
Williams also has two years of coaching experience in the Division I ranks.  He was an assistant coach at his alma mater, UNCW, during the 2013-14 season, helping lead the Seahawks to their 13th consecutive CAA title.  He helped coach and administer all aspects of the training and recruiting efforts for UNCW, and had a specific emphasis in helping coach the sprinters who won three conference titles, two of them relays.  After that year, Williams moved on to N.C. State, where he was a volunteer assistant for the 2014-15 seasons.  In Raleigh, he helped specifically with the distance group while also assisting in the administrative and recruiting efforts for the Wolfpack.  That year, N.C. State won the ACC Men's Championship for the first time in over 20 years and took eighth nationally, its highest finish in nearly 40 years.
 
Williams graduated from UNCW in 2013 with his degree in exercise science.  He helped the Seahawks win the CAA men's swimming championship all four years of his undergrad career, and was an eight-time All-CAA honoree.  Williams swam on four championship relays over his final three years, including both the 200 free and 400 medley relays in 2011, the 400 free relay in 2012, and the 400 medley relay as a senior in 2013.  He captained the squad in both 2012 & 2013, and also won the team Seahawk Award those years as well.