SAN ANTONIO — With the 2024 UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Class set to be honored during Homecoming Weekend, UTSA Athletics is profiling each of the five inductees leading up to the Induction Ceremony on Friday, Oct. 18. Former two-sport athlete Starlite Williams is featured today.
Williams will join Derrick Gervin (men’s basketball), Monica Gibbs (women’s basketball), Michael Rockett (baseball) and Teddy Williams (men’s track & field) as the second class inducted into the UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame.
The UTSA Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held on Friday, Oct. 18, at Pedrotti’s Ranch. Cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 7 p.m. Tables and individual seats for the event are on sale now by visiting https://giving.utsa.edu/halloffame.
The Hall of Fame plaques will be unveiled over the weekend at the Roadrunner Athletics Center of Excellence. The group also will be honored on the field during the Homecoming Game against Florida Atlantic on Saturday at the Alamodome.
These five inductees will join the inaugural class of McKenzie Adams (volleyball/women’s basketball), Devin Brown (men’s basketball), Larry Coker (football coach), Marcus Davenport (football), Lynn Hickey (athletics director) and Tameka Roberts (track & field/women’s basketball), who all were inducted in October 2023.
Starlite Williams
Class of 2024
Women’s Basketball (1983-87)
Women’s Track & Field (1985)
The first Roadrunner to earn first-team All-America honors in any sport, Starlite Williams accomplished that feat by finishing eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 12.64 meters at the 1985 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Earlier that year on the court, she garnered Kodak and American Women’s Sports Foundation Honorable Mention All-America honors. She averaged 17.6 points and 7.9 rebounds per game to help the women's basketball team to an 18-10 record and an Oil Country Athletic Conference (OCAC) Championship with a 9-1 mark in 1984-85.
Williams played a key role in UTSA’s back-to-back OCAC Championships in 1984 and 1985, helping the Roadrunners win at least 18 games in each of her four seasons, including a 21-6 record in 1983-84.
The San Antonio native finished her basketball career as UTSA’s all-time leader with 1,607 points and 281 steals to go along with 636 rebounds and 674 assists. Her top triple jump of 12.89 meters still stands third on the track & field program’s all-time performers list.
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