Jenny Williams

Jenny Williams is an Australian sports psychologist and athlete who represented South Australia in six sports, namely lacrosse, indoor lacrosse, touch, soccer, cricket, and Australian rules football.

Lacrosse Williams represented Australia in lacrosse and was a member of the 1986 World Champion Gold Medal team.

Williams also captained or co-captained South Australia to 12 National Championships in lacrosse (11 consecutive wins) and was named in the National Championship team in each of these years. She has subsequently developed a modified version of the game "Nines". She also worked in the media as a writer of football articles in the South Australian paper The News.

Professional career Williams was originally a physical education teacher. Throughout her sporting career she has coached junior teams ranging from all of her chosen sports and others such as tennis, basketball and volleyball. She was Head of Department and Sportsmistress at Immanuel College for 10 years and a physical education teacher at Sacred Heart College. In 1989 and 1990, Williams was Acting Women's Advisor to the Minister of Recreation and Sport.

She has also been involved in the Premier's Reading Challenge, a South Australian Government initiative for children's literacy.

In 2020, Williams was hired by Adelaide United FC as a sports psychologist.

Personal life Jenny Williams is the daughter of Australian Rules footballer Fos Williams, and the sister of Mark and Stephen Williams. Jenny said of her father "Growing up with a father who was a coach you learned to think about how you could take a sport forward, and I suppose I developed a great imagination for what could be achieved in sport."

In 2022, she was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services to women’s sport.