Ronnie Williams - Assistant Coach - Staff Directory

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Ronnie Williams

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Phone:
(515) 294-2871

A former All-American sprinter himself, Ronnie Williams is in his first year at Iowa State as coach of the Cyclone sprinters and hurdlers. Williams comes to ISU after coaching several individuals to All-America honors at the national junior college track and field championships while an assistant coach at Mesa (Ariz.) Community College.

Under Williams’ direction Mesa half-miler James Galvin placed sixth in the 800 meters at the 2007 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and third at the NJCAA meet outdoors. High hurdler Terrance McKinney finished seventh in the 2007 national junior college indoor meet in the 60-meter hurdles. Williams’ Mesa teams placed in both the 4 x 100-meter relay and the 4 x 400-meter relays at the NJCAA Championships. In 2006, Rodney Burns raced to a third-place finish in the NJCAA 100-meter final.

Williams was an accomplished sprinter, earning All-America honors at Kentucky from 1995-97. The native of Los Angeles, Calif., earned All-America honors in the 200-meter dash indoors in 1996. He ran on the Wildcat 4 x 400-meter teams that placed indoors and outdoors in 1996 and ran a leg on the 1995 Kentucky 4 x 100-meter relay that was an NCAA placewinner. Williams earned his bachelor’s degree in social work from Kentucky in 1997. He was a Southern California Community College champion in the 400 meters and was the runner-up in the 400 meters at the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships in 2000.