John Williams - Football Coach - James Madison University Athletics

John Williams

Title:
Director of Strength & Conditioning
Email:
willi2ji@jmu.edu
Phone:
540-568-6517
Physical Address:
Plecker APC 206 (220 Champions Dr.) / MSC 2201

John Williams was hired in February 2016 as James Madison University football's Director of Strength & Conditioning.

Williams came to Harrisonburg with a plethora of experience, having served as football strength & conditioning coach at South Carolina State, Kansas, Baylor and North Carolina.

Known as “Big John,” he spent three-and-a-half years at South Carolina State, where he was Director of Strength & Conditioning. He oversaw the overall strength & conditioning programming for all SCSU student-athletes, while providing day-to-day leadership in the football team’s strength and conditioning plans. He was also head strength coach at SCSU for two seasons (2008-09) and was considered an integral part of helping the Bulldogs to the 2008 and 2009 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championships.

In between his stints at S.C. State, Williams was the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for four seasons (2010-13) at Kansas, working under coaches Turner Gill and Charlie Weis. He spent six seasons at Baylor (2002-07), serving as Director of Strength & Conditioning for four seasons before being promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for his final two years. Williams also had stops as an assistant strength coach at North Carolina, twice (1997-99, 2000-02), and Oklahoma State (1999-00).

Williams is a 1995 graduate of North Carolina A&T. He has attained the highest level of certification in his profession at Master Level Strength Coach Certified (MSCC) and was one of the youngest strength coaches in the country to achieve this honor.