#29 Cooper Williams Season 2026
2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
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: 4 vs. Little Rock (6/1/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Regional)
Hits Allowed: 3 vs. Little Rock (6/1/25 – NCAA Baton Rouge Regional)
Runs: 2 twice; most recently vs. Tennessee (4/26/25)
Earned Runs: 2 vs. Northwestern State (4/22/25)
Walks: 2 four times; most recently vs. UCLA (6/16/25 – College World Series)