2026 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
2026 Season
• Made 21 appearances on the mound (one start), posting a 1-1 record and a 7.94 ERA in 17.0 innings with 15 walks and 27 strikeouts
• Pitched 1.1 scoreless innings at Tennessee (April 5) with no hits, two walks and two strikeouts
• Worked 1.1 scoreless innings in LSU’s March 29 win vs. Kentucky with no hits, one walk and two strikeouts
• Entered the season rated No. 45 among the 2026 Perfect Game Top 100 Sophomores
2025 Season
• Appeared in 21 games as a true freshman, posting an 0-1 mark and a 1.80 ERA in 20.0 innings with 13 walks, 21 strikeouts and a .186 opponent batting average
• Excellent relief effort vs. Little Rock in NCAA Baton Rouge Regional (June 1), working 3.2 shutout innings with three hits, one walk, four strikeouts
• Made three appearances in NCAA Tournament games, working a total of 6.2 innings with one run on five hits, four walks and five strikeouts
• Pitched 8.2 relief innings without allowing an earned run from April 26-June 7 … recorded 10 strikeouts and two walks in that span
High School
• Rated No. 67 among the 2025 Perfect Game Top 75 College Freshmen
• Ranked as the No. 12 best high school LHP in the country in 2024 by Perfect Game … a member of the Team USA 18U squad
• Posted a 10-4 career mark at Alvin (Texas) High School with a 1.34 ERA … recorded 152 strikeouts in 99.1 career innings
Personal
Full name is Cooper Don Williams .. born October 14, 2005, in Houston, Texas … parents are Justin and Brittney Williams; father is a cattle rancher, mother is an energy broker … has one younger sibling, Corynn … graduated in the Top 10 of his Alvin High class, which consisted of 690 students … one of his hobbies is playing chess … majoring in general business at LSU.
Williams’ LSU Career Highs
Innings: 3.2 vs. Little Rock (6/1/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Regional)
Strikeouts: 5 vs. Milwaukee (2/13/26)
Hits Allowed: 3 twice; most recently vs. Northeastern (3/2/26)
Runs: 4 twice; most recently at Vanderbilt (3/13/26)
Earned Runs: 4 at Vanderbilt (3/13/26)
Walks: 4 at Vanderbilt (3/13/26)