TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State head women's basketball coach Marc Mitchell announced the addition of Mollie Williams to the Sycamore staff as an assistant coach Wednesday afternoon.
 
Williams joins the Sycamores after spending the 2024-25 season as an assistant coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps where she helped the Athenas to a six-win improvement, more than doubling their win total from the 2023-24 campaign.
 
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps featured one of the top defenses in the SCIAC with Williams on staff in 2024-25, as the Athenas allowed just 61.5 points per game. CMS improved their scoring defense by nearly eight points per game from its 2023-24 numbers, while also ranking among the top 3-point shooting teams in the conference with more than six treys per game. More than one-third of the team's scoring came from its bench, with CMS rankings second in the conference with 21.4 bench points per game.
 
Williams' lone season on staff saw Renee Chong earn all-conference honors after averaging nearly 15 points per game, while Katie Resendiz averaged better than 12 points and seven rebounds per game for the Athenas. CMS' team in 2024-25 was a balanced effort, as seven different players averaged more than 4.5 points per game and six pulled down more than three rebounds per game. The Athenas were also a better rebounding team in Williams' year on staff, averaging a two-rebound increase per game compared to the 2023-24 season, while opponents shot below 40 percent from the field and 30 percent from 3-point range.

Prior to her time at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Williams spent three years as the head coach at Artesia High School in Lakewood, California. Previously, she served as an assistant coach at Centennial High School and had been an instructor at Scholarship Prep Charter School over the last five years, starting the school's first basketball team. In addition to her high school coaching experience, Williams has also served as a head coach for West Coast Elite Under Armour Girls Basketball on the AAU circuit since 2018. In that role, she has been the director of the Los Angeles Girls Team and served as an Elite 100 Prospect Camp Clinician. 

Williams was a four-year letterwinner at Washington, where she appeared in 117 games for a Husky program which made a pair of postseason appearances in that span. She was a captain on the 2011-12 team which earned a berth in the WNIT and was also on Washington's 2009-10 team which qualified for the WBI. Williams scored 500 points and had nearly 300 rebounds in her collegiate career. She also had a five-year professional playing career, with stops in the top leagues in France, Finland, Puerto Rico and Malta.
 
Williams earned her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Washington in 2012, and obtained her master's degree in sport management from the University of San Francisco in 2023.
 
Williams joins Jason Pruitt, who is entering his second season, and Kietta Saunders, who joined the Sycamores in June, on Mitchell's staff.
 
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