Kamiko Williams joined the SMU Women’s Basketball program in early April of 2025 and enters her first season as an assistant coach on the Hilltop.
Williams joined Head Coach Adia Barnes’ coaching staff at Arizona in August of 2024 as a special assistant to the head coach after serving as an academic coach at Tennessee during the 2023-24 season.
Prior to her time with Tennessee, she was an admissions counselor at Lincoln Memorial University. While at Lincoln Memorial, she helped with managing applications and enrollment and traveled to events and college fairs to help recruit students.
Williams brings a wealth of coaching experience to the Hilltop. Most recently, she was an assistant coach at Weber State from 2022-23, a role that saw her assist with operations and tasks to help the head coach.
Prior to Weber State, she was an assistant coach at Nicholls State for one season (2021-22) where she assisted with overseeing academic advising.
Williams spent three years at Monmouth as an assistant coach with the Hawks from 2018-2021. She was the program's recruiting director during that time. Williams helped the Hawks to the nation's 35th-ranked scoring defense in the 2019-20 season.
She additionally spent two of her three seasons at Monmouth as director of operations, serving in the role for the 2018-19 and 2020-21 seasons. She managed the team's travel and equipment during that time and oversaw the team's student managers.
Williams got her start in coaching as an assistant coach at New Haven, where she worked from 2015-18. She coached three athletes to Northeast-10 honors and one to Northeast-10 All-Rookie accolades during her time there. She assisted with scouting and was the program's recruiting coordinator, and she co-created the UNITY RUN community engagement initiative that is an effort between the women's basketball, cross country and track & field programs at New Haven.
Williams was drafted in 2013 by the New York Liberty and played in the league for one season. Before her professional career, she played collegiately for Tennessee under legendary head coach Pat Summit. During her time in Knoxville, she went to four NCAA Tournaments and advanced to the Elite Eight in three. She played in 128 games for Tennessee, and the Lady Vols went 120-23 during Williams' four years in school.
Williams graduated from Tennessee with a B.A. in Sociology in 2012 and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire.
