Education
He attended the University of Tennessee where he was an All-American for three years.
He attended the University of Tennessee where he was an All-American for three years.
Is also a brazilian jiujistu blackbelt under Luiz Palhares and runs a Asisics sponsored company known as Run Safer. His personal bests were 13:19.50 in the 5000 m and 27:31.34 in the 10,000 m. He ran his marathon best of 2:11:17 in the 1997 Chicago Marathon.
This is also the record for the whole of the North American, Central American and Caribbean region (NACAC).
Williams also holds the 3rd-fastest half marathon time ever by an American of 60:11 which he ran in Tokyo in 1993.
During high school he won the Michigan team race title twice. He was a two-time United States cross country champion, with victories in 1991 and 1993. He is a five-time winner of the Gate River Run and set the current American record over 15 km at the event, running a time of 42:22 minutes for the distance.