Jaida Williams - Women's Basketball Coach

Jaida Williams

Title:
Assistant Coach

Jaida Williams enters her first season as an assistant coach with the Lady Raiders in 2025026, after serving the 2024-25 season as the head coach of the Texas A&M International University Dustdevils. While at the helm of Texas A&M International, the Dustdevils ranked third in the Lone Star Conference with 18.25 turnovers forced per game and fourth in conference with 9.3 steals per game. Williams coached an All-LSC Honorable Mention selection in Josie Igherighe, who led the team with 12.8 points per game and 129 field goals made.

Prior to coaching at Texas A&M International, Williams served as an assistant coach for the Ole Miss Rebels from 2022-24. While at Ole Miss, Williams coached the team to 49 total wins and 23 wins in the SEC. In 2023-24, she aided Ole Miss to the team's second-consecutive SEC Tournament semifinals and to the NCAA Tournament second round. In her first season with the Rebels, Ole Miss would reach the program's 11th Sweet 16 after defeating 1-seeded Stanford. In addition, Williams coached three All-SEC honorees and six SEC All-Academic Team selections.

Before heading to Ole Miss, Williams spent nine seasons as the head coach for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, boasting 129 career wins with the program. While at Coastal Carolina, the Chants put up five seasons with 15+ wins, including a program record 25-4 season in 2019-20. In that year, the Chanticleers went 15-3 in the Sun Belt conference to finish second in the regular season. Named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year after that, Williams coached the Sun Belt's leading scorer in DJ Williams, who averaged 19.4 points per game and was named the Sun Belt Player of the Year. In addition, Williams coached the Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Year in Naheria Hamilton. The Chanticleers finished the season second in conference with 78.2 points per game and in scoring defense with 61.7 points per game allowed. Coastal Carolina also led the Sun Belt Conference in four team statistical categories and ranked second in nine other categories. In the 2018-19 season, Williams helped Coastal Carolina to its first postseason appearance in the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) after reaching the Sun Belt conference quarterfinals.

Before her stint with the Chanticleers, Williams served as an assistant coach for Wake Forest (2012-13), UC Santa Barbara (2008-11) and South Florida (2006-08). She was also the Director of Operations at Iowa for the 2005-06 season. At Wake Forest, Williams contributed to the Demon Deacons' top-20 recruiting class. She also helped UC Santa Barbara to a couple of Big West regular-season and tournament titles as well as an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009 and a WNIT appearance in 2011. While with South Florida, she coached the Bulls to two WNIT berths and aided USF to a top-16 recruiting class.

Williams was a student-athlete at Cal Poly Pomona from 2002-05, helping the team to a 23-7 record as a senior and a place in the NCAA Division II Tournament Regional Final. A native of Miami, Williams graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.