Chapman University

Izaiah Williams joined Chapman as an Assistant Athletic Director and Assistant Football Coach in August 2022. As an administrator, Williams oversees Wilson Field and the athletics department's Work-Study program. As a coach, Williams serves as the Running Backs Coach and Special Teams Coordinator. Under his coaching and leadership, his position groups have produced eight All-SCIAC selections and five All-Region selections in just three seasons.

He brings more than a decade's worth of coaching experience, including Division III and SCIAC experience. Most recently, Williams was working in his second stint at New Mexico State as the Player Development Coordinator. He was also the Director of Football Operations and the Pro-Liaison. In the three years prior, Williams was the Special Teams Coordinator and coached the linebackers at fellow SCIAC member Whittier College.

Williams was on staff at Dixie State – working with the returners and defensive backs – in 2016-17. From 2013-16, he was a Graduate Assistant on the defensive side of the ball at New Mexico State. Before his first stint at NMSU, he spent two years at Northwestern, where he worked in a variety of roles. He was the defensive quality control coach during the 2012 campaign, when the Wildcats went 10-3 overall and won the 2013 Gator Bowl, their first bowl-game victory since the 1949 Rose Bowl. Before arriving at Northwestern, Williams was the defensive backs and wide receivers coach at Urbana High School in Urbana, Ill., for one season.

Williams began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Humboldt State, his alma mater, from 2008-10. Working with the running backs, Williams guided two student-athletes to Great Northwest Athletic Conference honors. In 2008, he coached alongside Chapman defensive line coach and strength & conditioning coach, Kevin Ashton.

A native of Pacific Grove, Calif., Williams played collegiately at Monterey Peninsula College before transferring to Humboldt State. He earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Humboldt State in 2007.