Dave Williams

• Name: Dave Williams
• Class: 2025
• School: Mount Carmel

Dave "Whitey" Williams s a retired teacher and coach, whose career spanned 35 years. Williams' coaching career began after graduating from Bloomsburg State College in 1978. At Bloomsburg Williams majored in education and played baseball and basketball until an ACL injury ended his playing career. He then turned his focus to coaching after the loss of his Father, Don, a Korean War Veteran, at the age of 46. After 10 years as a teacher and assistant coach at his alma mater Tamaqua, Williams had a 16-year run as the head coach of Shenandoah, Mount Carmel and Nazareth, compiling a 153-53-1 record.

Williams was named PSFCA Coach of the Year three times and was also the Associated Press Pennsylvania Coach of the Year in 1996 after his Red Tornadoes went a perfect 15-0 and defeated Tyrone 25-6 for the Class 2A state championship. Over his career Williams' Red Tornadoes played in 4 PIAA Championship games, and won three. During his coaching career Williams compiled a 21-4 state playoff record.

Williams has been married to his wife, Cindy, for 43 years. They have two sons, Wayde, a Penn State computer engineering graduate, who works at St. Luke’s, and Lance, a Bloomsburg graduate working for CARES Empowerment Services. Williams also has two grandchildren from Wayde and his wife, Corynn, Oliver and Cora Mae.