Shannon B. Williams
Shannon B. Williams
Title: Head Coach
Phone: 310-900-1600 x2944
Email: swilliams@compton.edu
Year: 21st season in 2024

Head Coach Shannon B. Williams enters his 21st season at the helm of the Compton College baseball program. 

In his tenure, Coach Williams has provided stability to the baseball program and continue to help change student-athletes' lives in the Compton community and surrounding areas. On March 16, 2019 with a 7-3 win over Chaffey College marked Williams' 220th coaching win, making him the all-time winningest baseball coach in school history.

On April 11, 2023, Compton College defeated Mt. San Antonio, 2-0, for his milestone 250th career win.

Williams directed Compton to two of its four playoffs appearances (2010 and 2013) in school history. Since the institution was founded in 1927 of Compton’s four appearances in the state regional playoffs (1954, 1956, 2010 2013), it’s in 2013 when Compton College became only the second #16 seed to upset a No. 2 seed, then Riverside City College, in the first week of the playoffs which included a Super Regionals appearance and a school-record 25 victories.

The most impressive contribution during his tenure is a total of 244 players have transferred from Compton College to the 4-year universities. Eleven players have been drafted and signed professional baseball contracts. Six of his players were named All-Americans in Alfredo Lopez (2010), Matthew Young (2011), Omar Pelayo (2013), Nick Sanchez (2013), Larry Barraza (2014), and Martin Teague (2015).

Young and Teague were both named South Coast Conference MVPs.

Lopez was named California Rawlings Big Stick Offensive Player of the Year. Sixty-one of his players earned All-SCC honors, four were All-State Academic Selections, and three were selected Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners. Last year, nine of his players where named to the CCCBCA Academic All State Team.

Williams graduated from Compton College (1993, AA degree), California State University-Dominguez Hills (bachelor's degree, 1997), and he earned his two master’s degrees from Concordia University (Irvine) in 2011 and 2018. 

In 2022, Williams was honored as Compton Community District Faculty Member of the Year.

In 2002, he began his Compton College tour as head coach.

PREVIOUS COACHING EXPERIENCE/PARTNERSHIP WITH RBI PROGRAM

His first head coaching assignment was at Locke High in Los Angeles from 1997-2003. During his time at Locke, Williams coached the team to the Coliseum League championship in three straight seasons (2000-2002), and an impressive overall record of 94-47-1. In the spring of 2000, Williams was recognized as the Los Angeles City Wave Newspaper Baseball Coach of the Year.

In 1995 he started as volunteer coach with (RBI) Reviving Baseball Inter Cities program. John Young, a former Major League Baseball player and scout, developed the concept of RBI to provide disadvantaged youth an opportunity to learn and enjoy the game of baseball. Young decided that the best way to revive baseball in South Central LA would be to introduce a comprehensive youth baseball program for 13-to-16-year-olds.

This program would not only encourage participation in baseball and expand the pool of talented prospects, but, more importantly, it would provide young people with a positive, team-oriented activity that would keep them off the streets while challenging them mentally and physically.

Williams time as the manager of the RBI program has led the program to five World Series titles (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006) and nine finals appearances. His teams appeared in 15 consecutive RBI World Series (1997-2011) which are hosted at various sites throughout the United States.  

RBI is community base program that help students develop athletically and academically through baseball and softball. MLB assumed the operations of the program in 1991, and it has since grown to serve 230,000 young men and women in 200 cities across the USA, Canada, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the many sponsors of the RBI program.