YMLA offensive coordinator Jeremy Williams was named Sam Houston head football coach and boys athletic director, San Antonio ISD announced Monday.
Williams coached at YMLA since its inaugural season in 2020 and returns to Sam Houston, where he was a defensive coordinator from 2018-19.
“Sam Houston and the East Side has some of the best athletes in San Antonio,” Williams said in a news release. “We definitely know the standards of the past. We want to raise that bar, get back to the football playoffs and go a couple of rounds deep.”
Williams replaces Quincy Stewart, who left the program earlier this year. The Hurricanes were 5-9 in two seasons under Stewart.
Sam Houston hasn’t made the playoffs since 2018, the first year Williams was there.
Williams, who becomes a head coach for the first time, is also looking to build the other boys programs at Sam Houston, including basketball, which last made the UIL state tournament in 2014. The Hurricanes’ boys soccer team qualified for the postseason for the first time this season.
“As athletic boys coordinator, we want to get basketball back to regionals, track back to state and we want to continue to keep our soccer teams playing great,” Williams said. “We’ve just got to build it piece by piece and I think we can build sometime very special.”
Williams played at Dallas Carter in the mid-2000s and was an All-Big 12 Conference selection as a defensive back at Baylor.
Before coming to San Antonio, Williams coached at Kyle, La Grange and Carter.
“Jeremy brings a great deal of enthusiasm and energy to this role,” SAISD athletic director Todd Howey said. “He has a clear path for athletic and academic success and I am very excited for him, the student-athletes and the Sam Houston community.”
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