Amy Williams (basketball)

Amy Williams

Williams in 2020
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Nebraska
Conference	Big Ten
Record	72–75 (.490)
Biographical details
Born	(1976-08-19) August 19, 1976 Spearfish, South Dakota
Playing career
1994–1998	Nebraska
Position(s)	Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1998–2000	Nebraska–Kearney (GA)
2000–2001	UTSA (asst.)
2001–2005	Oklahoma State (asst.)
2005–2007	Tulsa (asst.)
2007–2012	Rogers State
2012–2016	South Dakota
2016–present	Nebraska
Head coaching record
Overall	265–184 (.590)
Tournaments	0–1 (NCAA) 8–2 (WNIT) 2–1 (WBI) 2–2 (NAIA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
WNIT (2016) 2× Summit League regular season (2015, 2016) Summit League Tournament (2014)
Awards
2× Summit League Coach of the Year (2015, 2016) Big Ten Coach of the Year (2018)

Amy Michelle Williams (née Gusso; born March 22,1976) is the current head coach of the Nebraska women's basketball team. She was previously the head coach at the University of South Dakota, and led the Coyotes to the 2016 WNIT championship.

Early life and education

Born Amy Michelle Gusso in Spearfish, South Dakota, Williams graduated from Spearfish High School in 1993 and played 57 games as a reserve guard for the Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball team at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1994 to 1998. Williams graduated from Nebraska in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in biology and mathematics.

Coaching career

From 1998 to 2000, Williams was a graduate assistant for the University of Nebraska at Kearney women's basketball team while studying for her master's degree in sports administration, which she completed in 2002. Williams was an assistant coach at UTSA in the 2000–01 season then at Oklahoma State from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007, Williams was an assistant at Tulsa. Williams helped Tulsa win the program's first regular season and tournament titles in Conference USA and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006.

Williams got her first head coaching job as the first women's basketball head coach at Rogers State University, an NAIA school in Claremore, Oklahoma, in 2007. In five seasons, Williams accumulated a 97–65 record and two NAIA Tournament appearances in 2011 and 2012 for the upstart Hillcats program.

In 2012, Williams returned to the NCAA Division I level as head coach at South Dakota. Williams went 96–44 in four seasons, all of which ended with postseason appearances, including the 2013 WBI semifinals, 2014 NCAA Tournament first round, and 2015 WNIT second round. The 2015–16 South Dakota team went 32–6 and won the 2016 WNIT.

On April 11, 2016, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln hired Williams as head women's basketball coach.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Rogers State Hillcats (Sooner Athletic Conference) (2007–2012)
2007–08	Rogers State	13–18	9–13	T–7th
2008–09	Rogers State	18–14	11–11	6th
2009–10	Rogers State	21–11	12–10	T–4th
2010–11	Rogers State	23–10	15–7	4th	NAIA First Round
2011–12	Rogers State	22–12	14–8	4th	NAIA Quarterfinals
Rogers State:		97–65 (.599)	61–49 (.555)
South Dakota Coyotes (Summit League) (2012–2016)
2012–13	South Dakota	19–16	10–6	3rd	WBI Third Round
2013–14	South Dakota	19–14	7–7	4th	NCAA First Round
2014–15	South Dakota	26–8	13–3	1st	WNIT Second Round
2015–16	South Dakota	32–6	15–1	1st	WNIT Champions
South Dakota:		96–44 (.686)	45–17 (.726)
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Big Ten Conference) (2016–present)
2016–17	Nebraska	7–22	3–13	T–11th
2017–18	Nebraska	21–11	11–5	T–3rd	NCAA First Round
2018–19	Nebraska	14–16	9–9	T–6th
2019–20	Nebraska	17–13	7–11	10th
2019–20	Nebraska	13–13	9–10	9th	WNIT Second Round
Nebraska:		72–75 (.490)	39–48 (.448)
Total:		265–184 (.590)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion