David Williams is the goalkeeper coach for the University of New Hampshire men's soccer team in Durham, New Hampshire, and 2026 marks his 12th season on the staff. He has been part of six America East Staff of the Year selections, three Northeast Region Staff of the Year honors and one Eastern Region Staff of the Year recognition. Across his work at UNH and Southern New Hampshire, he has coached three All-Americans, six all-region goalkeepers and 10 all-conference goalkeepers. Teams with goalkeepers he has coached have regularly ranked among the national leaders in shutouts and goals-against average and have reached 13 NCAA Division I or Division II tournaments, including seven Sweet Sixteen appearances, two quarterfinal berths and a Division II national championship season.
Williams graduated from Cornell University in 1993, where he was a four-year starting goalkeeper, a two-year captain and remains third in program history in career saves. After college, he played professionally for the San Diego Top Guns and the Colorado Foxes and later coached U-13, U-16 and U-17 premier club players in San Diego and New Hampshire. After a knee injury ended his playing career, he worked in sales, marketing and operations before moving to New Hampshire as a manufacturing company's director of operations, later becoming an independent consultant. A Colorado native, he has lived in Rye, New Hampshire, for the past 20 years with his wife, Kate, and their two children.
