Jason Williams - Women's Volleyball Coach

Jason Williams

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
JASON.WILLIAMS1@tcu.edu
Phone:
(817) 257-7362

Jason Williams was named the fourth head coach in TCU Volleyball history on Dec. 20, 2021, and enters his fourth season at the helm of the program in 2025.

A native of nearby Plano, Texas, Williams arrived in Fort Worth following a highly successful assistant coaching tenure at Baylor from 2015-2022. Williams’ seven years in Waco saw him climb the ranks from volunteer assistant in 2015 to full-time assistant in 2016 and then associate head coach in 2020.

Over the course of Williams’ collegiate coaching career, he has helped produce 14 AVCA All-Americans, 24 All-Region honorees and 39 All-Conference nods, in addition to the 2019 Big 12 Championship. A program builder, Williams is just one of 11 other active head coaches to advance past the first round of the NCAA Tournament in each of their first three seasons at the helm.

One of Williams’ most significant accomplishments since arriving at TCU has been reinvigorating a passion for the sport across campus. In each of his first two seasons, the Horned Frogs broke the program record for single-game attendance average in a season with 1,642 fans in 2022 and 2,247 fans in 2023 packing Schollmaier Arena each match, including a TCU women's sports attendance record with a crowd of 7,412 to see TCU face off against No. 6 Texas on Oct. 18, 2023.

In his third season at the helm of TCU volleyball, Williams has led the Horned Frogs to one of their best seasons in school history. In 2024, TCU received its first national ranking ever, cracking the top 25 of the AVCA coaches’ poll where it stayed for 13 straight weeks. He also guided four Horned Frogs to all-conference honors and two to AVCA All-Southwest Region Honors, including Melanie Parra, who was named Big 12 Player of the Year, Region Player of the Year and a semifinalist for the AVCA’s 2024 Division I Player of the Year Award.

Overall, TCU recorded its highest RPI ever, wrapping up the regular season 16th in the country. The Frogs earned a third straight NCAA Tournament bid, punching their ticket to the Eugene Regional where they defeated Hawaii 3-0 in the opening round of the Big Dance to advance to the Round of 32 becoming one of 18 programs in the country to win a Tournament match in each of the last three seasons.

With a 22-8 record on the season, TCU notched its first 20-win campaign since 2011, including a school record tying 14 wins on its home court in Schollmaier Arena. In Big 12 play, TCU posted a 13-5 mark, its most wins in conference play ever, to finish fifth in the league. Throughout the season, the Frogs knocked off three ranked opponents, No. 18 Minnesota (3-2), No. 14 Baylor (3-1) and No. 23 BYU (3-2), and Williams earned his 50th career victory as a head coach to become the fastest to 50 wins in TCU volleyball history.

Individually, Parra posted one of the best seasons by an outside hitter in Big 12 history, topping the 500-kill mark. The senior led all Power 4 attackers during the regular season and finished 2024 with a single season program record 669.5 points and 573 kills, the most in the rally scoring era in school history. Throughout the season, she earned six Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors, tying the conference record, and became the first woman Division I Volleyball history to win back-to- back AVCA/GameChanger Player of the Week honors (Sept. 10 & 17).

Sarah Sylvester cemented herself as one of the best blockers in TCU history, cracking the top 10 in total blocks (seventh, 329). She won two Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week awards and totaled the fifth most blocks in a single season in program history. Jalyn Gibson had a career season, earning First Team All-Big 12 honors and AVCA All-Southwest Region laurels. Alice Volpe and Becca Kelley rounded out the award winners, taking home All-Big 12 Rookie Team honors.

Williams’ second year saw the Horned Frogs make the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season – the second time in school history that TCU has advanced to consecutive NCAA Tournament Round of 32. The Frogs earned their second consecutive NCAA Tournament First Round win, defeating No. 22 Florida State, 3-1, on Dec. 1 to become one of only 24 schools nationally to earn tournament victories in 2022 and 2023. TCU also earned three ranked wins, the most in program history, and 13 victories over AVCA Top 100 teams (nine wins against AVCA Top 50 teams), including back-to-back wins over No. 20 Baylor on the road for the first ranked road wins in school history.

The Horned Frogs saw tremendous success on the court in 2023, recording the most assists (1,496), digs (1,881) and kills (1,620) since 2011, aces (167) and points (2,107) since 2009 and blocks (320) since 2007. Three student-athletes received All-Big 12 honors in Melanie Parra, Jalyn Gibson and Audrey Nalls. Parra and Gibson also garnered AVCA All-Southwest Region First Team accolades.

Under Williams, Parra became the first player in TCU history to be named to one of the three All-American teams, earning AVCA Third Team All-American honors. She took the nation by storm, averaging 4.38 kills per set (17th nationally) and 5.17 points per set (12th nationally) while recording a pair of 34-kill matches for the Frogs.

Off the court, Williams and his staff signed the No. 9 ranked recruiting class for the 2024 season according to PrepVolleyball.com, further bolstering the program’s foundation for future success.

Williams was nothing short of an instant success in his inaugural head coaching season in 2022. After being tabbed to finish seventh in the Big 12 preseason poll, TCU finished third outright in the conference standings behind a 17-11 overall record and program-record 11 wins in Big 12 play. The third-place finish was TCU’s best in 11 years of conference membership. The Horned Frogs then earned their fourth-ever NCAA Tournament Berth and first in six years, advancing to the Round of 32 following a 3-1 opening-round win over national power Washington.

Under Williams’ leadership, TCU produced the biggest turnaround season of any Power Five conference volleyball program in 2022. TCU enjoyed the largest year-over-year win improvement of any team. The Horned Frogs were the only program to more than double their overall win total and more than quintuple their conference victories from 2021. TCU’s nine-win improvement in conference play was also the best of any program in the 64-team NCAA Tournament field.

Williams had the Horned Frogs emitting in full across the national radar by the time the 2022 season reached its conclusion. In total, 19 of the 28 teams the Horned Frogs faced were featured in the top 100 of the RPI. Along the way, TCU notched eight top 70 victories and downed five top 50 foes (Baylor, Kansas, Washington, Iowa State, Texas Tech).

Individually, Williams coached Audrey Nalls and his daughter, Callie Williams, to All-Big 12 first team recognition. He also saw Nalls named to the AVCA All-Southwest Region Team. The duo helped TCU lead the Big 12 with five conference Offensive Player of the Week selections. As for himself, Williams became the first head coach in program history to win 10 or more home matches and conference duals in his first season at the helm.

Also a member of the USA Volleyball coaching staff pipeline, Williams serves as an assistant coach and scout for the USA National Team Development Program, where he coaches and mentors some of the top junior volleyball athletes in the country.

Prior to TCU, Williams was instrumental in helping Baylor, posting six consecutive 20-win seasons and NCAA Tournament appearances. In conference play, the Bears finished first or second in the Big 12 in his final five seasons with the program. In 2019, Baylor earned a No. 1 national ranking, won the program's first Big 12 championship with a 15-1 conference record, was the NCAA Tournament's No. 1 overall seed and reached the Final Four. During his tenure in Waco, Williams coached six players to All-America honors, including 2019 AVCA National Player of the Year and five-time All-American Yossiana Pressley. In 2021, the Bears climbed as high as No. 6 in the national rankings and made their third consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 following a 22-6 season.

Before arriving at Baylor, Williams was a highly successful coach at the junior club level in Texas. In the 10 years prior to his time in Waco, Williams led his club teams to annual top 20 national rankings, with eight of those squads in the top 10.

He was a four-sport athlete (football, basketball, baseball and track) at Plano East Senior High School. Williams went on to play football at Austin College. Williams then embarked on a successful beach volleyball career.

Williams' wife, the former Cory Sivertson, was also a setter and became the first volleyball player inducted into the Baylor Hall of Fame. She closed her career holding 18 school records, many of which still stand. Williams credits his successes on the volleyball court to Cory's success, knowledge and influence.

The couple currently resides in Fort Worth and has two grown children, Callie and Barrett. Callie played for her father for three years at Baylor before earning First Team All-Big 12 honors in her final season of eligibility at TCU in 2022.