Trinity College

Maria Williamson enters her second season as Trinity Head Women's Basketball Coach for the 2025-26 season. Williamson owns a career record of 72-33, including a 19-9 mark at Trinity.
 
In her first season at Trinity, Williamson logged a 19-9 record with a 6-4 mark in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), earning the third-seed in the NESCAC Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament. The Bantams downed Tufts in double-overtime to reach the semifinals, where Trinity fell to second-seed Colby College, 90-69. The Bantams received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball Championship Tournament for the third straight season and fifth time in program history. The Bantams defeated UMass-Dartmouth, 59-56, in the First Round, and then fell to eventual National Champions New York University in the Second Round, 83-45.

Williamson joined Trinity after a three-year stint at UChicago, where she totaled a 53-24 record, including a 23-5 mark during the 2022-23 season guiding the Maroons to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Championship Tournament. The 23-win season was the fourth-highest win total in program history. Williamson and her coaching staff were honored as the University Athletic Association (UAA) Coaching Staff of the Year. Williamson had seven players earn All-UAA status, including three First Team selections, and a pair of D3hoops.com Second Team All-Region selections.
 
Prior to receiving the Head Coaching position at UChicago, Williamson served as an Assistant Coach at Loyola University-Chicago, Dartmouth College, and the United States Naval Academy. At Loyola, Williamson served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for four years, bringing in six Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman Team honorees and helped increase the team’s win total by 13 wins over the four-year span.
 
While at Dartmouth, Williamson was an assistant coach, guard coach and recruiting coordinator for three years. Under Williamson’s watch, Dartmouth’s defense finished in the Top 3 in the Ivy League and ranked Top 100 Nationally for two seasons. In 2016, Williamson brought in the highest ranked recruiting class in program history. Williamson helped bring the first of three Patriot League Championship to the Naval Academy, working under the tutelage of former Bowdoin Head Coach Stefanie Pemper, along with a trio of NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship Tournament appearances.
 
As a student-athlete, Williamson was a member of the Bowdoin College Women’s Basketball program for four seasons, helping guide the Polar Bears to three NESCAC Conference Championships and four appearances in the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Championship Tournament, including back-to-back trips to the Elite Eight in 2006 & 2007. Williamson took home All-NESCAC First Team honors as a senior after leading the conference in assist-turnover ratio (2.79) and ranking third in assists, averaging 4.85 per game. Williamson ranks tenth all-time in Bowdoin program history in career assists with 300, and owns the fourth-highest three-point field goal percentage in a single season, shooting at a .489 (45-92) clip during her junior campaign in 2007-08.
 
Williamson graduated from Bowdoin with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and later earned her master’s degree in Coaching and Leadership from Ohio University in 2013.