Tammy Williams

Tammy Kay Williams, born on 21 June 1987, is an American former collegiate four-time All-American and four-time professional All-Star softball player and coach. She played her natural position of shortstop at Northwestern from 2006 to 2009, and later for Team USA and the Chicago Bandits. She holds Northwestern's all-time career records for batting average, home runs, hits and total bases, and she helped lead the Wildcats to a national runner-up finish at the 2006 Women's College World Series. The Chicago Bandits drafted her tenth overall in the 2009 National Pro Fastpitch draft, and she won two Cowles Cup championships, in 2011 and 2015. She later worked as a sports broadcaster for the Big Ten and as an assistant softball coach at Northern Illinois.