coaches
Assistant Coach
Sarah Williams Year at JMU: Second* (grad assist. in 11-12) Alma Mater: James Madison ‘09
Sarah Williams returned to her alma mater in 2013 as an assistant coach with the JMU women’s basketball program. Prior to joining the JMU staff, Williams served as an assistant coach for Longwood in 2012-13, when the Lancers advanced to the championship game of the Big South Conference. After being picked to finish 11th in their first season in the Big South, the Lancers earned the seventh seed in the postseason tournament. Longwood upset second-seeded Winthrop en route to the championship game, where the Lancers fell to top-seeded Liberty. The Lancers doubled their wins total (from seven to 14) from the previous season and won five of their last seven games in 2013.
Williams was a graduate assistant coach with the Dukes in 2011-12 before joining the Longwood staff. That season JMU advanced to the championship game of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament and finished the year with a 29-7 record. Williams was a two-year starter at guard in both of her playing seasons with the Dukes (2008-10). She led the team in steals (51) and was second in rebounding (6.5) as a redshirt senior on JMU’s 2009-10 Colonial Athletic Association champion and NCAA Tournament team. That season Williams was a team captain and the recipient of the team’s Leadership Award. She was also named to the CAA All-Academic First Team and was a JMU Athletic Director Scholar Athlete. In her junior season in 2008-09 she ranked second on the team in scoring (8.6) and tied the school record for season games played (34). She transferred to JMU after two seasons (200507) at the University of Richmond, where she was
named to the Atlantic 10 Conference All-Rookie Team in 2006. Williams received her undergraduate degree in finance from JMU in 2009 and her master’s degree in sport and recreation leadership from JMU in 2012. She is a native of Wilmington, Del., and twice earned Street & Smith All-America honorable mention as a basketball player on two state champion Ursuline Academy teams.
Director of Operations
Tim Clark
Year at JMU: Ninth Graduate of: James Madison ‘09
Tim Clark was named the Dukes’ director of operations in July 2010, but he had a five-year association with the JMU program prior to his appointment in operations. In 2009-10 Clark was a graduate assistant with the program after serving four seasons as head team manager with the Dukes. As JMU’s graduate assistant in 2009-10, Clark was in charge of film exchange, overseeing the student team manager program, ordering and maintaining equipment inventory and coordinating and scheduling the practice squad.
His work experience with the women’s basketball program as a manager included assisting the coaching staff in executing the day to day operations of the program and extensive experience with film exchange and general office operation. He also completed a full-time full-credit internship as well as a 450plus hour coaching education practicum with the program. Clark also completed a 90-hour undergraduate practicum with JMU’s Office of Athletics Communications. In addition he has served as camp director, assistant camp director, league commissioner, site coordinator and camp counselor with Kenny Brooks Team, Elite and Individual Basketball Camps and has been on the staff for the Matt Brady Elite Player Summer Basketball
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Camp, Hampden-Sydney College Basketball Camp, Anthony Grant Basketball Camp at Virginia Commonwealth University and Eastern Mennonite University Basketball Camp. Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from JMU in May 2009 and a master’s degree in sport and recreation leadership in May 2011. His undergraduate concentration was in sports and recreation management and he completed minors in business administration and coaching education.