Coach Brian Jenkins On Coach Terry Williams: "A dedicated Wildcat. He believes in Bethune-Cookman University and is totally dedicated to the program, the school, and the community. He shows what type of product B-CU produces as an alum, He lives and dies Bethune-Cookman. Terry is warm hearted, a strong family man which important to me. He is a coach who like to get to the players and gets to know them as individuals. He teaches the game and takes a lot of pride in that. He teaches secondary play aw well as anybody in the country."

A veteran coach with NFL playing experience as well, Terry Williams is in his 12th season at Bethune-Cookman University serving as the defensive backs coach for the Wildcat football program in 2011.

In what has become one of the most illustrious positions at Bethune-Cookman over the past six seasons, Williams has coached several National Football League draftees and caliber players in his eight-year experience with the Wildcats.

In 2002, Williams oversaw the development of Rashean Mathis as the B-CU free safety who broke the FCS single-season interception record, won the Buck Buchannan award for FCS Defensive Player of The Year and would be selected by his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars in the second round of the NFL draft. Two years later, Nick Collins would follow as a second round pick of the Green Bay Packers, and Collins has gone on to three Pro Bowl berths and a Super Bowl XLV championship in which he returned an interception 36 yards for a touchdown.

Williams has worked with the entire secondary at times and teaches hard-nosed, aggressive blitzing techniques and loves speed on the outside with no excuses from his cornerbacks that they were beaten off the ball. His cornerbacks love to hit at the line, and they will never fail in working in the Wildcat Athletic Performance Center on their size for blocking out receivers.

Beginning his coaching career at Pine Ridge High School in nearby Deltona, Fla., Williams served as the defensive coach for the Panthers before venturing to Mainland High School in Daytona Beach. While at Mainland, Williams helped in engineering a defensive unit that allowed less than 20 points per game for the season as the Buccaneers went 10-1 in his first year with the program.

Williams was a standout football and track & field star at South Dade High School in his hometown of Miami, Florida. His All-America talent on the track earned him a scholarship to play football at his alma mater of Bethune-Cookman College in 1984. While at Bethune-Cookman, Williams was a stellar defensive back for the Wildcats under former head coach and NFL Hall of Fame player (Miami Dolphins) Larry Little.

After his playing days at Bethune-Cookman, Williams was drafted by the New York Jets of the NFL in the second round. He spent two seasons with the Jets until a knee injury ended his playing career well short of what was sure to be an illustrious career.

It is not uncommon to see Williams still using his speed and agility to demonstrate defensive routes and blocking techniques to his cornerbacks ... thus showing his exuberance for the position and game he loves to coach so dearly.

Williams currently resides in Daytona Beach with his beloved wife Tonya. Together, the couple enjoys the company of their five children, in daughters Alexis, Mercedes, Octavia and Takara, as well as son Terry Williams II.