Tammi Julch Williams came to TWU in the fall of 1990 wanting to be a dominant post player for the Pioneers. After four successful years, TWU's opponents found out how good the Arlington, Texas native was as she notched herself in the record books.
“TJ,” as everybody referred to her, began her first year by averaging 10.9 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, earning her a starting job in the Pioneers' rotation. She finished 18th in the Lone Star Conference in scoring while helping lead TWU to a fourth-place finish.
As a sophomore, Williams earned her first LSC Player of the Week honors in Dec. 1991. She led the team in scoring and rebounding, and moved to No. 8 on the Pioneers' all-time scoring list with 691 points after just two seasons. She earned Honorable Mention All-Conference honors at post after finishing fourth in the league in scoring and rebounding, averaging 17 points and eight rebounds per game. Williams was also tabbed a 1991-92 GTE CoSIDA Academic All-District selection and First Team Academic All-LSC.
Williams kept adding on the awards after her junior season, moving to third on the TWU scoring list with 1,159 points, earning her second consecutive Academic All-Conference selection, and being named to the 1992-93 GTE CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team. She led the conference in scoring with 19.5 points and was second in rebounding with 9.5 boards per game, and she earned her second LSC Player of the Week honor (for Dec. 3-9, 1992), on her way to being named Second Team All-Conference.
As a team captain in her senior season, Williams was again one of the top performers in the Lone Star, finishing sixth in scoring with 17.7 points and fifth in rebounding with 8.3 boards per contest. She was named to the Second Team All-Conference squad for the second straight year and added another LSC Player of the Week honor for her play Dec. 5-11, 1993. She was named to the 1993-94 GTE CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team and earned her third consecutive Academic All-Conference honor. She also earned the U.S. Achievement Academy's All-American Collegiate Scholar award for the second time in her career. Being selected the 1994 Division II NCAA Woman of the Year for the state of Texas further validated Williams as a stellar student-athlete.
The name Tammi Julch is prominent in TWU’s record books - second in points with 1,644; second in rebounds with 805; third in steals with 154; and fifth in blocks with 57. She was named TWU Basketball’s Most Outstanding Athlete three consecutive years. The TWU Athletics Council selected her to receive the 1993-94 President’s Award, the highest award given to a current Pioneer student-athlete. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with a 3.926 grade point average.
For all her work on and off the basketball court, Williams earned the prestigious $5,000 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award in 1994. She went on to medical school and graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1998. She is board certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics, and is a Fellow Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Williams became the second Pioneer basketball student-athlete inducted into the Texas Woman’s University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002.
From 2006-08, she served as the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and a member of the Medical Executive Committee at Baylor Hospital (Irving campus). From 2008-10, Williams was a member of the Board of Directors for the Medical & Surgical Clinic of Irving. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for StoneGate Christian Academy in Irving, a post she has held since August 2011.
Parents truly appreciate Williams’ outstanding level of care and concern for their children’s well-being and have selected her for the Patients’ Choice Award (
www.patientschoice.org) and Most Compassionate Doctor (
www.vitals.com) in 2011 and 2012. These honors are bestowed on physicians who have received near-perfect scores as voted by their patients. Recently she also was named a 2012 Talk of the Town Award Winner based on ratings from consumer-review websites, blogs, social networks, business service ratings and other award information as gathered by Celebration U.S. Media (
www.talkofthetownnews.com/awards2012/9722534305).
In January 2014, Williams was honored at the annual NCAA Convention as a member of the NCAA Division II 40
th Anniversary Tribute Team. She was selected by the Lone Star Conference as the league's female representative on the tribute team.
Dr. Williams is currently a pediatrician at the Medical and Surgical Clinic of Irving, Texas. Along with her husband Geray, she is raising a family of five - stepson Geray Jr., Halle, Lexi, Gesiah, and Amani.
