Former Stanford swimmer Kim Williams is making her return to the Cardinal swimming and diving staff, having simply been introduced as the ladies’s swimming and diving assistant coach on Monday.
“I’m ecstatic to be returning to The Farm, this time as a coach,” Williams stated. “Greg [Meehan] is undoubtedly the most effective coaches within the nation and extra importantly the most effective folks I do know. I can not wait to work alongside him and reunite with Katie Robinson as nicely. The Cardinal girls have a particular place in my coronary heart and I’m past excited to embark on this journey with these girls.”
Williams is taking up the function from former assistant coach Kim Brackin, who headed again residence to Florida after ending out a six month dedication with the staff in late June.
Stanford’s girls’s staff positioned fifth on the NCAA Division I Championship this previous season, regardless of dropping a number of prime performers as a consequence of transferring or going professional. In 2023 the ladies’s squad secured a Third-place end on the NCAA Championships, and they are going to be seeking to transfer up the rankings once more this coming season.
Williams competed for Stanford from 2015 to 2019, incomes a complete of six NCAA All-America honors over the course of her collegiate profession. She helped lead the staff to a few consecutive NCAA and Pac-12 Championships,
Williams left an enduring mark on the staff, as she nonetheless holds three Stanford Prime-10 instances, together with college data within the 200 and 400 medley relays. As well as, Williams served as staff captain throughout her senior 12 months and was a four-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and three-time Pac-12 All-Tutorial honoree.
After graduating within the spring of 2019, Williams served as a full-time swim coach at Ladera Oaks Swim & Tennis Membership in California.
Her first voyage into the world of collegiate teaching was as a volunteer assistant at Northwestern throughout the 2022-2023 season beneath the path of Robinson, who was just lately employed because the affiliate head coach at Stanford.
Williams spent the 2023-2024 season working because the assistant coach for the boys’s and girls’s swimming and diving packages on the College of California, Berkeley beneath head coach David Durden. Throughout her time with the Golden Bears, Williams helped the ladies’s staff attain their sixth Pac-12 title in program historical past.
Williams is returning to the Stanford staff as an assistant beneath the steering of head coach Greg Meehan, who introduced the addition of Williams to the teaching workers.
“Kim is a rising star within the teaching career, has intensive institutional information of Stanford and is somebody Katie Robinson and I do know and belief,” Meehan stated. “It simply feels proper having Kim again on The Farm.”
Meehan himself was beforehand an assistant coach at California beneath Durden from 2008 to 2012.
Williams’ transfer to Stanford additionally reunites her with affiliate head coach Robinson after working beneath her at Northwestern for one season.
Initially from Bellevue, Washington, Williams earned her bachelor’s diploma in psychology with a minor in political science.
