About this episode

Mike Williams discusses his successful coaching career and recent national championships with Grand Valley State University.

Mike Williams is the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Grand Valley State University where he just led the Lakers to back to back D2 National Championships in 2025 and 2026. In his 11 years at the helm of the Laker program, he has amassed a 314-50 (.863) overall record and a 188-28 (.870) record in the GLIAC. He has led the Lakers to six GLIAC regular season titles, four GLIAC Tournament titles, four Midwest Regional titles, and two National Championships. This is the second stint for Williams at GVSU, as he was an assistant coach with the Lakers from 2002-2007, which included winning the 2006 Division II National Championship. Williams spent four seasons as the head coach at Davenport, where he compiled an outstanding 130-11 (.922) overall record. Before becoming the head coach at Davenport, Williams spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Michigan. He was also responsible for starting the women's basketball program at Finlandia (NCAA Division III) in Hancock, Mich. In his three seasons as head coach (1999-2000 to 2001-02), the team owned a 44-33 (.571) record. Williams coached for a number of years at the high school level, where he was head coach of the girls varsity team…

People in this episode

Guest: Mike Williams

Topics covered

• women's basketball
• coaching
• national championships
• sports achievements
• GLIAC
• basketball history

Keywords

• Mike Williams
• Grand Valley State University
• women's basketball
• D2 National Championships
• GLIAC
• coaching record
• basketball history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grand Valley State University, Davenport, Michigan

Places: Hancock, Ironwood

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