ConneX AM - March 2023

When

March 22, 2023    
7:30 am - 10:00 am

Where

Martin's Valley Mansion
594 Cranbrook Road, Cockeysville, Maryland, 21030

The March ConneX AM is powered by Strategic Factory and features former University of Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams!

Gary Williams returned to the University of Maryland in September 2014 in a senior role overseeing athletics fundraising and spearheading university-wide alumni outreach. As Senior Managing Director for Alumni Relations and Athletic Development, Williams will be responsible for an athletic fundraising operation that raises over $8 million annually for student-athlete scholarships and operates the 8,000-donor Terrapin Club Scholarship Fund.

Williams, who was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August 2014, will focus on fundraising efforts to build new and renovate existing athletic facilities.

Williams will also work to integrate campus-wide alumni outreach, serve as spokesman for the Alumni Association’s new 25th Anniversary Celebration, and help manage the University’s new regional development plan in New York City, Baltimore, Los Angeles and South Florida. He will focus on increasing the engagement and philanthropy of the University’s 320,000 alumni.

Williams served as a campaign co-chair for UMD’s recently-completed $1 billion Great Expectations capital campaign. He will now play a leadership role within the Division of University Relations. Last year, the University raised over $142 million, best in UMD history.

Selected for induction into National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in July 2014, Williams is the first coach in history to be selected to both institutions in the same year.

Upon returning to the College Park campus in 1989, Gary Williams led his alma mater’s basketball program from a period of troubled times to an era of national prominence during his 22 seasons at the helm from 1993-2011.

With 14 NCAA Tournament berths in his final 18 seasons, Williams and his staff garnered seven Sweet Sixteen appearances, a pair of consecutive Final Four showings, and the 2002 National Championship – the first of its kind in Maryland basketball history.

After leading the Terrapins to the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title in 2010, Williams was voted the league’s Coach of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. It was his second such award, as he was also honored in 2002.

With an all-time record of 461-252 (.646) as Maryland’s head coach, Williams stands as the Terrapins all-time winningest head basketball coach. He passed Charles “Lefty” Driesell, who amassed 348 victories in 18 seasons from 1969 to 1986.