Tamika Williams-Jeter

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Tamika Williams-Jeter
Dayton Flyers
PositionHead Coach
LeagueAtlantic 10
Personal information
Born (1980-04-12) April 12, 1980 (age 44)
Dayton, Ohio, US
Listed height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High schoolChaminade-Julienne
(Dayton, Ohio)
CollegeUConn (1998–2002)
WNBA draft2002 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx
Playing career2002–2008
PositionForward
Number20
Coaching career2002–present
Career history
As player:
2002–2007Minnesota Lynx
2008Connecticut Sun
As coach:
2002–2008Ohio State (GA/assistant)
2008–2011Kansas (assistant)
2014–2016Kentucky (assistant)
2016–2019Penn State (assistant)
2019-2021Ohio State (assistant)
2021–2022Wittenberg
2022–presentDayton

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.

High school

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]

College

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.

Professional career

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]

Coaching career

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]

Head coach

Wittenberg

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]

Dayton

On March 26, 2022, Williams-Jeter was announced as the head coach of the University of Dayton Flyers.

Awards

  • WBCA high school player of the year(1998)[5]
  • Ohio Miss Basketball (1998) awarded by Ohio High School Basketball Coaches Association[3]
  • 2008 Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award, awarded annually to a WNBA player who best exhibits the characteristics of a leader in the community.[22]
  • 2013 Inductee of the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame

UConn statistics

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

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to the Dayton Lady HoopStars". Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  2. ^ "Chaminade-Julienne junior cager Walker commits to UConn". Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  3. ^ a b "OHSBC Ms. Basketball". Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  4. ^ "Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 1 Jul 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Past WBCA Players of the Year". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 3 Jul 2014.
  6. ^ "WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 29 Jun 2014.
  7. ^ "Full-court Press". Sports Illustrated. 1998-01-19. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  8. ^ Auriemma, G.; MacMullan, J. (2006). Geno: In pursuit of Perfection. Warner Books. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-446-57764-9.
  9. ^ "Player Profile Tamika Williams". Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  10. ^ "NCAA Basketball Individual Collegiate Records" (PDF). p. 104. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  11. ^ "UConn Media Guide" (PDF). p. 108. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  12. ^ "UConn Media Guide" (PDF). p. 112. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  13. ^ "UConn Media Guide" (PDF). p. 107. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  14. ^ "Flat-out Perfect". Sports Illustrated. 2002-04-08. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
  15. ^ "WNBA 2002 Draft". Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  16. ^ "WNBA Player Profile". Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  17. ^ "WNBA Transaction 2008". Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  18. ^ "Tamika Raymond appointed to lead Indian Sr. Women's National Team". SportsKeeda. 7 October 2010. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  19. ^ "Kentucky hires Tamika Williams as assistant". Washington Times. August 13, 2014. Retrieved 18 Aug 2014.
  20. ^ "Wittenberg hires former CJ, UConn star to coach women's basketball". springfieldnewssun.com. Springfield News Sun. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  21. ^ "NCAC on Twitter: #NCACwbkb22 Tournament / Semifinals FINAL: @WittAthletics 55, @DePauwAthletics 52 Wittenberg advances to the title game!". 25 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
  22. ^ "Tamika Raymond receives leadership award". Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  23. ^ "UConn Media Guide" (PDF). p. 146. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2009-06-19.

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