Sport:<\/strong> Girls basketball<\/p>\n Season in review:<\/strong> The Broncos finished 26-8 and won the Southern California Division 2 championship. RB lost the state championship game to Caruthers.<\/p>\n Career in review:<\/strong> In 10 seasons as the Broncos\u2019 coach, Williamson is 214-98. His Broncos have won two SoCal titles (the other in 2021) and one San Diego Section crown (Division 2 in 2017). The Broncos have qualified for the state playoffs in six of Williamson\u2019s 10 seasons. RB\u2019s state record under Williamson: 12-5, including 10-0 at home.<\/p>\n Making the switch<\/strong>: Williamson was an RB boys varsity assistant for six seasons before taking over the girls program. \u201dThe thing I love about girls that\u2019s different from boys is if they believe in you, they\u2019ll die for you and the team on the court. They\u2019ll do everything,\u201d he said. \u201cBoys will say, \u2018You want me to get dirty? You want me to dive on the court?\u2019 But girls, if they believe in you and have pride in what your program represents, they\u2019ll leave it all out on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n Family affair:<\/strong> Williamson, 44, played for his father, Craig, at Sedona (Ariz.) Redrock High School, where he was a starting point guard. Williamson\u2019s younger brother, Kevin, was the head coach at University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos before the school folded. Kevin Williamson is now the head coach at Dakota State in South Dakota.<\/p>\n Kyle Williamson is married and has two children, a daughter, Kelsey, 7, and son Connor, 4. Of his wife, Katie, Williamson said: \u201cShe\u2019s my backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n Working a 9-to-5 job:<\/strong> Williamson is a behavioral intervention assistant at Abraxas High School, a continuation school that serves students at risk of not earning a high school degree.<\/p>\n Defensive-minded:<\/strong> Williamson\u2019s Broncos are noted for their tenacious defense. RB runs a full-court press almost all the time to great success. This year\u2019s team allowed an average of 33.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Drilling defense:<\/strong> Every day at practice, the Broncos execute intense, one-on-one, full-court, defensive slide drills. If the offensive player scores, the defensive players do push-ups. If the defensive player gets a stop, the offensive player does push-ups. Said Williamson, \u201cIt\u2019s an excellent drill because it works on conditioning, ball-handling and defense.\u201d<\/p>\n While the drills molded RB\u2019s defensive prowess, they weren\u2019t a favorite of the players. At RB\u2019s season-ending banquet, senior Keira Tokushige said, \u201cOne thing I won\u2019t miss are those defensive slide drills.\u201d<\/p>\n She said it: <\/strong>\u201cHe\u2019s always been super supportive of me and believed in me, even if no one else did,\u201d said\u00a0Lindsay Biddle, who led the Broncos with an average of 19.1 points per game. \u201cHe started me as a freshman and gave me that push, made sure that I knew I was a good basketball player and I just needed more confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong> Williamson was a talented high school golfer, finishing fifth in the Arizona state championship his senior year. He shot an 8-under 64 at Oak Creek Country Club in Sedona.<\/p>\n Citing golf\u2019s cost and commitment to his family, Williamson hasn\u2019t played a round since 2013.<\/p>\n Coachspeak:<\/strong> \u201c<\/strong>He\u2019s amazing, he\u2019s awesome. A helluva coach,\u201d\u00a0Mission Hills\u2019 Chris Kroesch said of Williamson. \u201cThe thing he does is he gets the most out of his group every single year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Union-Tribune\u2019s Girls Coach of the Year for the 2024-25 school year is Kyle Willamson of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3102,1370,3549,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-11877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-high-school-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114740724306447121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0000018c-5a63-d8b4-a3ae-5b63f3eb0000.jpg\")
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