Tamika Williams-Jeter (born Tamika Maria Williams; April 12, 1980) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Dayton. She was a professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx and the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA.
| Dayton Flyers | |
|---|---|
| Position | Head Coach |
| League | Atlantic 10 |
| Personal information | |
| Born | (1980-04-12) April 12, 1980 (age 42) Dayton, Ohio, US |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Chaminade-Julienne (Dayton, Ohio) |
| College | UConn (1998–2002) |
| WNBA draft | 2002 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall |
| Selected by the Minnesota Lynx | |
| Playing career | 2002–2008 |
| Position | Forward |
| Number | 20 |
| Coaching career | 2002–present |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 2002–2007 | Minnesota Lynx |
| 2008 | Connecticut Sun |
| As coach: | |
| 2002–2008 | Ohio State (GA/assistant) |
| 2008–2011 | Kansas (assistant) |
| 2014–2016 | Kentucky (assistant) |
| 2016–2019 | Penn State (assistant) |
| 2019-2021 | Ohio State (assistant) |
| 2021–2022 | Wittenberg |
| 2022–present | Dayton |
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Williams-Jeter started playing organized basketball at age 10 in the Dayton Lady Hoopstars AAU program,[1] played on Lady Hoopstar teams which won one national AAU age group championship and finished in top four twice.
Williams-Jeter had a stellar basketball career at Chaminade-Julienne,[2] a Catholic high school in Dayton, Ohio. She was named the 1997 and 1998 Ohio Player of the Year and was named in the 1997-98 Associated Press girls Division I All-Ohio high school basketball team. She was named "Ohio's Miss Basketball" by the Associated Press and chosen by a statewide media panel.[3] Williams-Jeter was also named a WBCA All-American and the WBCA high school player of the year.[4][5] Williams-Jeter participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored eight points.[6]
After graduating from Chaminade-Julienne, Williams-Jeter was heavily recruited by numerous collegiate teams. In 1997, she was the subject of a seven-page feature in a January 1998 issue of a Sports Illustrated magazine article on the pressures of being recruited.[7] Ohio State arranged for a private jet to fly Williams-Jeter from her home in Dayton to Columbus, approximately 70 miles away. She mentioned this to UConn coach Geno Auriemma, who responded by mailing her a little wooden plane, explaining, "Sorry, Tamika. This is the best we can do."[8]
Williams-Jeter attended the University of Connecticut, majored in interpersonal communications, and served as President of UConn's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.[9] From 1998 to 2002 she was part of the UConn basketball team, which became NCAA Division I National Championship teams in 2000 and 2002 under coach Geno Auriemma.
She completed her four-year collegiate career in 2002 with averages of 10.6 points per game and 5.8 rebounds per game. She finished as UConn's all-time leader in field goal percentage at 70.3% (560-for-797), which is also an NCAA Division 1 record.[10] She also holds the Huskies' top four single-season marks for field goal percentage,[11] ranked 14th on UConn's all-time scoring list with 1,402 points,[12] and finished 10th all-time in rebounding (763).[13] She was one of four players (along with Asjha Jones, Swin Cash, and Sue Bird) called by Sports Illustrated "best recruiting class of 1998".[14]
In recent years, she has been spending the WNBA off-season working on getting a master's degree in sports management at Ohio State University.
During the 2002 WNBA Draft, the Minnesota Lynx selected Williams-Jeter in the first round, sixth overall.[15] In 2003, she set a WNBA single-season record for field-goal accuracy, with a percentage of 66.8%.[16]
On March 14, 2008, Williams-Jeter was traded to the Connecticut Sun in exchange for Kristen Rasmussen.[17]
Williams-Jeter served as an assistant coach at the University of Kansas for their women's basketball team.
Williams-Jeter served as the head coach for the Senior National team of India at the Asian Games held in Guangzhou (China). The games were played in November 2010.[18]
Williams-Jeter joined Matthew Mitchell's Kentucky staff as an assistant coach in August 2014.[19]
In May 2021, Williams-Jeter became head basketball coach at Wittenberg University.[20] In her first year as the head coach of the Tigers, Wittenberg knocked out #10 DePaw out of the NCAC Tournament on February 25, 2022, advancing to the title game.[21]
On March 26, 2022, Williams-Jeter was announced as the head coach of the University of Dayton Flyers.
| Tamika Williams Statistics[23] at University of Connecticut | |||||||||||||||||||
| Year | G | FG | FGA | PCT | 3FG | 3FGA | PCT | FT | FTA | PCT | REB | AVG | A | TO | B | S | MIN | PTS | AVG |
| 1998-99 | 33 | 173 | 263 | 0.658 | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 98 | 151 | 0.649 | 226 | 6.8 | 27 | 66 | 12 | 50 | 738 | 444 | 13.5 |
| 1999-00 | 31 | 115 | 161 | 0.714 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 51 | 71 | 0.718 | 111 | 3.6 | 24 | 65 | 8 | 40 | 509 | 281 | 9.1 |
| 2000-01 | 33 | 132 | 174 | 0.759 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 60 | 97 | 0.619 | 186 | 5.6 | 25 | 54 | 7 | 45 | 656 | 324 | 9.8 |
| 2001-02 | 35 | 140 | 199 | 0.704 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 73 | 112 | 0.652 | 240 | 6.9 | 44 | 47 | 16 | 52 | 766 | 353 | 10.1 |
| Totals | 132 | 560 | 797 | 0.703 | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 282 | 431 | 0.654 | 763 | 5.8 | 120 | 232 | 43 | 187 | 2669 | 1402 | 10.6 |
Current women's basketball head coaches of the Atlantic 10 Conference | |
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