Andrea Williams​

Andrea Williams is a success story for women in sports, both as an athlete and as an administrator and executive. She was a standout basketball and volleyball athlete at Winston Churchill High School and Texas A&M University. At Churchill, Williams was named 1992 San Antonio Athlete of the Year and still holds the school’s girl’s basketball scoring record. A four-year letter winner in volleyball and two-year letter winner in basketball at A&M, she was the first Aggie to letter in both sports in the same season. ​

Williams’ career in college athletics includes two years on the NCAA staff as the director of Women’s Basketball Championships and ten years as associate commissioner for the Big Ten Conference. She became commissioner for the Big Sky Conference in 2016 and in 2018 was named chief operating officer for the College Football Playoff. She moved into professional basketball in 2021 as chief experience officer for the Utah Jazz.​

Williams honors include a 2014 SportsBusiness Journal “Game Changers: Women in Sports Business” award, the Shadow League Award for Leadership in 2017, the 2018 San Antonio Express-News “Sportswoman of the Year” and a 2020 Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business award recipient.​