Ryun Williams

Ryun Thomas Williams (born March 26, 1969) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head women's basketball coach at Colorado State.

Early life and college playing career Born in Gillette, Wyoming, Williams graduated from Campbell County High School and was awarded the Wyoming Mr. Basketball award in 1988. Williams averaged 17.3 points and 2.3 rebound s in his junior season of 1990–91. As a senior in 1991–92, Williams averaged 9.4 points and 2.4 rebounds.

Coaching career From 1993 to 1995, Williams was men's basketball assistant coach and women's volleyball head coach at Sheridan. Williams was women's basketball head coach at Sheridan from 1995 to 1998, during which he earned two Wyoming Conference Coach of the Year awards.

Williams became head coach at Colorado State in 2012. Colorado State went 11–19 in his first season and improved to 25–8 in 2013–14, along with a Mountain West Conference regular season title and WNIT appearance. Colorado State won the MW regular season and made the WNIT again in 2014–15. In 2015–16, Colorado State finished first in the MW for the third straight season, this time with an 18–0 conference record. For the first time since the 2001–02 season, Colorado State was ranked in the AP Poll. During his time at CSU, Williams has quickly surged to the winningest women's basketball coach in CSU history, and has registered 20 win seasons in 10 of his seasons at the helm, and a winning record in 11 out of 14 seasons. This includes 5 consecutive 20+ win seasons on two occasions, 4 of which included regular season conference championships, and 2 of which included MW tournament championships. .

In 2025-2026, the Rams went 27-7, winning the Mountain West Conference tournament by beating 6th seeded Grand Canyon University, 2nd seeded UNLV, and 9th seeded Air Force, to make their return to the NCAA Tournament. Additionally, with a win over San Jose State on March 3rd, 2026, Williams tied Joe Legerski for the most conference play wins by a head coach in Mountain West women's basketball history with 159 conference wins; Williams did this in 14 seasons compared with Legerski's 16.

Head coaching record Junior college

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