Bobby Williams to be honored at NACDA Convention
6/9/2008 1:00:00 AM | Athletics
Bobby Williams, director of athletics at Sam Houston State University, will be honored as the 2007-08 AstroTurf Athletics Director of the Year “Football Championship Subdivision West” region winner on Tuesday, June 10.
The presentation of the award will be made a the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics 43rd annual convention at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas at the James J. Corbett Award Luncheon.
Williams has served as Bearkat director of athletics since April 29, 1998. In his 11 years at the helm of the Sam Houston State program, the Bearkats have won three Southland Conference Commissioner's Cups, two men's All-Sports championships, 13 league titles and four postseason tournament titles. Sam Houston State teams have earned NCAA national playoff berths six times.
Sam Houston athletes have produced the highest grade point average in department. At the same time the Kats have won its three SLC All-Sports titles, they also have produced the most Academic SLC Honor Roll honorees in the league.
Williams has overseen more than nine million dollars of facility improvements including new strength and fitness building, baseball/softball complex, golf practice facility, scoreboards, football stadium video board, and football press box expansion.
New marketing strategies have increased both campus and community attendance at all Bearkat intercollegiate athletics events, and increased revenue generated from outside university sources from $600,000 to $2.4 million.
Under Williams' direction, the Bearkat Learning Enhancement Center opened in the fall of 1997. The facility allows student-athletes access both to computers and assistance from academic tutors. Sam Houston State student-athletes have produced GPAs of better than 2.50for 24 consecutive semesters, with a high of 2.90 in 2007.
Williams and his wife Janet (who is a professor in the SHSU College of Education) have two daughters, Audrey Kathryn (18) and Alexandra Karolyn (14).
