Michael E. Williams

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Michael Williams Alpine skiing
nation JamaicaJamaica Jamaica
birthday October 6, 1969
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom
status unknown
last change: February 4, 2013

Michael Elliott "Mike" Williams (born October 6, 1969 in Toronto , Canada ) is a former Jamaican- Canadian American football player and ski racer , who in 2013 became the first athlete for Jamaica to take part in a World Ski Championships.

Career

football

Williams was born in Canada and grew up there with his Jamaican mother and grandmother.

He played football at Northern Secondary High School in Toronto from 1983 to 1988 . He already gained experience in the coaching field as a teenager. At the college level, he was a quarterback and wide receiver on the University of Western Ontario team from 1991 to 1993 .

Williams continued his football career in Switzerland : in the 1995 game he steered the attacks of the St. Gallen Raiders as quarterback , was also assigned tasks in the coaching staff during the season and held the position of attack coordinator there.

In 1996 he was a substitute for quarterback Dino Bucciol on the Hamburg Blue Devils team , after the death of head coach George White in September 1996 he also worked in the Hanseatic coaching staff. With Hamburg he became German champion in 1996 and Eurobowl winner. In 1997 he was back as a playing assistant coach in the Hamburg team and won the Eurobowl again.

In the 1998 season, Williams was the head coach of the regional league team Hamburg Wild Huskies . In October 1999 he took up the post of head coach at the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in the top German division. In the 2000 season he was also the chief coach of the Kiel team. In his native Canada, he worked from 2001 to 2004 as an attack coordinator at York University in Toronto. In 2004, Williams was also part of the coaching staff of the Czech national team , where he was responsible for coordinating the attacking game.

In the run-up to the 2005 season he was about to return to the coaching staff of the Hamburg Blue Devils, but canceled the Hanseatic team in March 2005. In 2006 he was the head coach of the Cologne Falcons .

From 2008 Williams was employed by the Frankfurt Universe team and strengthened the Hessen team as a player and as a member of the coaching staff. In 2014, he was head coach of the Frankfurt team, who had meanwhile been promoted to the second division, and for the 2015 season he returned to the position of attack coordinator at Universe, which he had already held before his promotion to head coach. In February 2018, Williams became the head coach of the Netherlands national team . In September 2019, he and his coaching staff resigned.

ski

Williams achieved great public fame in winter 2012/2013 when he announced that he would be the first athlete for Jamaica, the land of his ancestors, to take part in the World Ski Championships at the 2013 World Ski Championships in Schladming . He missed his goal of becoming the first Jamaican ski racer to compete in the Winter Olympics in 2014. According to Williams, he was inspired by the Jamaican bobsleigh team , which took part in the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary, as well as the Ghanaian ski racer Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong and Errol Kerr , who finished ninth in ski cross at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

In January 2013, Williams, who had been on skis for the first time two years earlier, tore a cruciate ligament while training on the Reiteralm . Nevertheless, on the 4th, shortly afterwards, he took part in the qualifying races for giant slalom and slalom at the 2013 World Cup in Schladming. Due to his injury, he was wearing a carbon splint. Williams was 63rd in slalom at the World Championships in Schladming and 96th in giant slalom. He competed again at the 2015 World Ski Championships. At the World Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek he reached 62nd place in slalom and 108th place in giant slalom. Williams was also registered at the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz , but ultimately did not take part in the slalom race.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jamaicaobserver.com: Canadian-born Jamaican sets sight on 2014 Russian Winter Olympics
  2. ↑ a b c Karl Schlicker: Mike Williams committed as offensive coordinator. May 5, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1996/pdf/19960923.pdf/ASV_HAB_19960923_HA_018.pdf
  4. ↑ Hamburg Blue Devils NAMES, DATES, FACTS. (PDF; 957 kB) In: fk-hbd.de. Förderkreis Hamburg Blue Devils eV Hamburg, December 31, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/1999/pdf/19991012.pdf/HAHA19991012lf0000125.pdf
  6. ↑ Alexander Becker: The Devils trembled against Kiel for their first point game victory . In: THE WORLD . June 12, 2000 ( welt.de [accessed March 8, 2020]).
  7. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2004/pdf/20041203.pdf/HAHA20041203lf029.pdf
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/archive/2005/pdf/20050314.pdf/HAHA20050314lf028.pdf
  9. ↑ https://www.ksta.de/keine-zeit-zum-kennenlernen-13133012
  10. ↑ Karl Schlicker: Mike Williams signed as offensive coordinator. May 5, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Williams new Dutch Lion Head Coach. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  12. ^ Coaching staff Dutch Lions stapt op. In: Gridiron. September 12, 2019, accessed March 8, 2020 (Dutch).
  13. ↑ a b christina.pertl, stefan.sigwarth: Exotic skiers: Like from another world. In: kurier.at. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ jamaicandreamchaser.com: My Story
  15. ↑ "Cool Runnings": Jamaicans are training for the World Ski Championships in Schladming. on: nachrichten.at , December 19, 2012.
  16. ↑ Jamaican Williams wants to start despite knee injury. ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: sport.orf.at , February 4, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sport.orf.at
  17. ↑ 10 40 am, 10 February 2015: Ski World Cup: The exotic and his desire for the rocket backpack. February 10, 2015, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Sport1.de: Michael Williams from Jamaica is living his dream at the World Ski Championships. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  19. ^ WILLIAMS Michael Elliott - Athlete Information. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  20. ^ FIS World Ski Championships St. Moritz (SUI). Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Michael E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Michael Elliott (full name); Williams, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican-Canadian ice hockey and American football player and ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Canada