Assistant Women's Swimming Coach Joni Williamson

Bio

Joni Williamson joined the Tiger swimming and diving coaching staff prior to the 2011-12 season.

Williamson served as the head coach of the Dayton Dolphins Swim Club in 2010 and 2011, devising workouts, developing policies and handling all aspects of competition. For three years before that, she served as an assistant coach in the Dayton Raiders Swim Club. During that time, the club had a junior national champion and record-holder, three Olympic trial qualifiers and two Ohio high school state champions.

A six-time masters national champion, Williamson started her coaching career as an assistant at Ohio University during the 2003-04 school year. The women's team placed second in the Mid-American Conference (MAC), while the men took fourth as two swimmers earned NCAA B cut qualifying times and 11 student-athletes were named first- or second-team all-conference.

As a club swimmer in her native Indianapolis, Williamson was a junior national qualifier with multiple times that ranked among the best in the state between 1991 and 2000. She moved on to the University of Evansville, where she earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honors three time in her four years. She was a member of an 800-yard freestyle relay team that set a school record, and she was a US Open and junior national qualifier during her collegiate career.

Williamson previously served as athletics promotions director at Wright State University. While there, Williamson graduated from the yearlong NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Females. She also worked as compliance coordinator and event and facility operations assistant at Washington State University, and she completed an internship with the NCAA in membership services.

Williamson spent three years working for the Greene County Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she served as the organization's sports sales manager. While there, she became a Certified Sports Event Executive through the National Association of Sports Commissions.

Williamson earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Evansville and her master's in recreation and sport science from Ohio University. She resides in Dayton with her husband, Andy, and son, Cooper.