UW-Stevens Point head women’s basketball coach Matt Hockett has completed his program’s coaching staff for 2024-25 season with the addition of Bruce Williams as an assistant coach.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Coach Williams to our coaching staff this upcoming season,” said Hockett. “With strong roots in central Wisconsin, coupled with both assistant and head coaching experience, Bruce will bring a strong and dynamic background to our program and players. More importantly, everything we strive to achieve is based upon the foundation of FAMILY, and there’s no better fit for continuing that commitment to growth than Coach Williams.”
Williams comes to UWSP after spending last season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Cornell College. There, he was responsible for what the head coach has referred to as the best recruiting class in the 20 years he has been leading the program.
No stranger to Central Wisconsin, Williams led an impressive turnaround as the head varsity girls basketball coach at Wild Rose High School from 2005-15. The program won three conference championships during Williams’ tenure, highlighted by back-to-back undefeated conference seasons and an impressive 42-game conference winning streak.
Williams was assistant varsity boys coach at Wild Rose from 2015-18.
From 2017-23, Williams founded and directed Welcomed, a non-profit organization serving vulnerable children of foster and adoptive families.
Williams and his wife Stephanie have been married 26 years and have seven children (2 biological and 5 adopted). They have been foster parents for the past 10 years and have cared for more than 20 additional children since 2014.
