David Williamson serves as associate head coach with the Monmouth University field hockey program. In his role, he contributes across all areas of the program, including team training, technical and tactical development, recruiting, opponent preparation, and game-day coaching, while also leading the Hawks’ goalkeeper development.
Williamson brings more than two decades of NCAA Division I coaching experience, along with extensive international and professional experience in team coaching, player development, goalkeeper development, performance analysis, and program building. His career has placed him in a wide range of performance environments, from NCAA Division I and Ivy League hockey to national team, professional, club, and athlete-development settings.
Since returning to Monmouth in 2018, Williamson has helped bring a high-performance lens to the program’s daily training environment, blending international-level detail with the relationship-driven approach central to the Hawks’ culture. During his time with the program, Monmouth has won multiple conference championships, made an NCAA Tournament appearance, and achieved the highest national ranking in program history.
Prior to returning to Monmouth, Williamson spent five seasons at Princeton University, where he was part of a staff that helped the Tigers reach five consecutive NCAA Tournaments, including the 2016 NCAA Final Four. His responsibilities at Princeton included goalkeeper coaching, penalty corner development, opposition scouting, video analysis, talent identification, international recruiting, and game preparation.
Williamson’s international experience includes nearly a decade with the U.S. Women’s National Team, supporting the program through multiple major competition cycles, including World Cups, the FIH Pro League, and Pan American Games. His work with the national team included goalkeeper development, penalty corner attack and defense, opposition scouting, video analysis, talent identification, playing squad selection, and team operations.
He has also worked within the Irish national program across senior and underage levels, contributing to goalkeeper development, coach education, and curriculum design. Most recently, Williamson worked with the Indian National Team goalkeepers in preparation for the Nations Cup and the 2026 World Cup.
In 2025, Williamson served as an assistant coach with the Odisha Warriors in the Hockey India League, contributing to team development while serving as the goalkeeper coaching specialist during the club’s championship-winning inaugural season. The experience added to a coaching background that spans collegiate, international, professional, and club environments.
A former goalkeeper himself, Williamson’s coaching is rooted in a broad understanding of the game, with particular depth in the details of the goalkeeper position. His approach emphasizes preparation, clarity, decision-making, communication, and helping athletes understand not only what to do, but why it matters. Across his career, his work has supported athletes who have gone on to compete at the NCAA, international, Olympic, and professional levels.
In addition to his collegiate and international coaching work, Williamson is the founder and director of Shutout School, a goalkeeper development platform focused on structured, intentional training for field hockey goalkeepers and coaches. Through camps, clinics, club partnerships, and coach education, Shutout School reflects his long-standing commitment to improving the goalkeeper position through thoughtful, repeatable development systems.
His broader work in video, scouting, performance analysis, curriculum design, and athlete development reflects a career spent building systems that help players and teams improve with purpose and consistency.
Williamson is a graduate of the University of Ulster, where he earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Geography.
