Keshia Williams joined the University of New Orleans athletic training staff in December 2018 as the athletic trainer for women's basketball and women's tennis before switching to baseball and golf in 2019. Williams was promoted to head athletic trainer in April of 2021.

She is a pivotal member of the Ochsner Sports Medicine staff and of the New Orleans Athletics COVID-19 Task Force. Williams set testing guidelines to safely return to campus, practice and compete throughout the 2020-21 season.

No stranger to New Orleans, Williams spent the previous five months as an assistant athletic trainer at Dillard University where she worked with the women's basketball and volleyball teams.

Prior to her time at Dillard, Williams spent the 2017-18 academic year as the head athletic trainer at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. 

Williams began her career in athletic training as an intern at Louisiana College working with both the men's and women's basketball programs while also assisting with junior varsity and varsity football. She has also spent three years (2014-17) working as an athletic trainer for Pivot Physical Therapy in Maryland.

A member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association, Williams received her Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Ashland University in 2012, before earning her master's degree in Health and Human Performance from Austin Peay in 2013.

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