Dr. Remel Williams completed her fifth season as assistant track and field coach at Piedmont in the spring of 2025. Dr. Williams came to Piedmont following one year as a graduate assistant coach at Lincoln Memorial University.
The continued success of the Lions has been in large part due to Dr. Williams as she helped guide both programs to the CCS Championship in 2025. Silas Goolsby also earned second team All-American honors at the NCAA Division III National Championship in the 200m.
In 2024, Dr. Williams helped oversee more success for Piedmont Track & Field. She helped the men's side capture their second consecutive CCS Championship. On the individual side, she helped guide Garrett Stadler and Silas Goolsby to USTFCCCA All-Region honors in the 400m hurdles and 110m hurdles, respectively.
The 2023 season saw Dr. Williams help Lions break multiple school records and deliver a clean sweep of the inaugural Collegiate Conference of the South Men's and Women's Track & Field Championships.
Her second season with the Lions saw Dr. Williams help guide Anthony Jordan to a historic season in the long jump. Under her watch, Jordan delivered a third-place finish in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships while Jordan also brought home South Region Field Athlete of the Year from the USTFCCCA.
In her first season with the Lions, Dr. Williams helped guide both the men's and women's track and field programs to the USA South Conference Title. She helped Karla Cantrell earn Co-Track Athlete of the Meet honors on the female side while Alvin Jacobs and Julian Hazen took home Tri-Track Athlete of the Meet on the men's side.
At Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Williams worked primarily with the team’s sprinters as well as work on speed and starts with hurdlers, jumpers, and multi/combined-event athletes at LMU. At the South Atlantic Indoor Conference Championship in February 2020, she helped lead an individual to a conference championship in the women's 60m with a time of 7.66. This marked the first indoor champion in LMU history and that mark qualified the student athlete for NCAA DII Nationals.
She also helped guide student athletes to three school records during the 2020 indoor season in the women's 60m, women's 200m and men's 60m.
Dr. Williams has had multiple coaching opportunities during her career including working with both Legacy Athletics Track Club and E-1 Track Club (USATF/AAU). She also volunteered as a community coach at Cumberland Gap High School during 2019.
She holds the USATF Level 1 Coaching Certificate and Level 2 Coaching Education in Sprints/Hurdles/Relays. She also attended the USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy online in May 2020 on the Division II Coaches Scholarship/Tuition waiver to attend the Track & Field Sprint/Hurdles/Relay Specialist Certification Course (SCC).
Dr. Williams was a three-year competitor for the Shorter Hawks track and field team including serving as co-captain in 2017-18. Dr. Williams was a 2017 NCAA National Outdoor Track & Field Championship Qualifier in the 4x100m Relay. She ran her final year of track eligibility at Lincoln Memorial while pursuing her master's degree.
She also competed on the Hawks' cross country team during the 2017 season and served as a SAAC representative and vice president of SAAC from 2016-18.
She earned her bachelor of science in early childhood education/elementary education teacher preparation from Shorter University in 2018. Dr. Williams then moved on to earn her master's in education in curriculum & instruction from Lincoln Memorial University in 2019 and her specialist's in education from Lincoln Memorial in 2020. She completed her doctorate of education in curriculum and instruction in 2025 from Lincoln Memorial.
Last updated 6/25
