CROSS COUNTRY

from Athletics Media Guide Fall 2021

FOOTBALL

Kylanna Bluford Head Coach

Williams Head Coach

Coach Williams was hired as the jumps and hurdles coach in Spring of 2016. Since then he has coached 15 GVC champions, 4 Norcal champions, and 4 All-Americans.

Prior to coaching at Shasta College Coach Williams competed on scholarship for Sacramento State for two years as a jumper and hurdler. He was awarded the team indoor MVP his sophomore year for his performance at the Big Sky Conference Championships. He is in the top 10 record books for the Indoor High jump (3rd), Outdoor high jump (10th), and indoor 60M hurdles (10th).

Williams, would eventually part ways with Sacramento State and finish his career as a scholarship basketball athlete for Simpson University. Where he earned 1st team all-conference honors and Defensive player of the year as a senior.

Aside from being the jumps and hurdles coach at Shasta College, He also is the director of the first ever track club in Redding “FLIGHT TRACK CLUB” that serves athletes from all over Shasta and Trinity County. Williams had dual collegiate coaching duties for 2020-2021 season as he took over a first year program at Simpson University while maintaining his duties at Shasta. At Simpson he would make a significant impact as he quadrupled his roster size in year 1, built a solid foundation for the program, and had many top-3 finishes amongst his athletes.

Kylanna competed for shasta college in 2019. Unfortunately she would go down mid season with a career ending injury. Prior to her injury Kylanna was on pace for a breakout year. She picked up to career best one in long jump one in triple jump and she was at the top of conference in both. Rather then let the injury sideline her permanently Kylanna would come back later in the year as a “coach” where she shadowed coach Williams with the jumpers and sprinters. She fell in love with the coaching aspect and proved to be a great help. Because of this Williams offered her a spot to help coach at Simpson with him during the cross and track seasons. “Coach Ky” was in charge of all weight room duties for cross country and track and took over as the sprints coach for Williams. Kylanna is majoring in kinesiology with Aspiration of becoming a head coach one day.