Christopher Williams
Sports Reporter
Waco, Texas
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Chris Williams is joining KWTX after spending two years covering news and sports in Nebraska.
Though Chris has never actually lived in the Lonestar state, he has Texas in his blood. His dad was born and raised in San Antonio and played college football at Trinity... his mom spent part of her childhood in El Paso... and his brother, Zac, got his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Baylor.
Before starting his on-air career, Chris attended Chapman University where he was captain of the football team, helping the Panthers win two SCIAC conference championships.
Chris is excited to be telling the stories of student athletes across central Texas.
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|By Christopher Williams
Two local boys basketball teams have earned spots in the state semifinals, and each is trying to break a championship drought.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:33 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Bears wrapped up the regular season in style, knocking off 17th ranked Texas Tech, setting school and conference records along the way.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2021 at 7:44 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
A local girls team, and two local boys teams won today to stay alive in the high school basketball playoffs
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 6:42 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Lorena lost 24 games last year, but without those failures, they never would have found this year’s successes. The team has bounced back by making a run all the way to the regional tournament for the first time in school history. Coach Jackson tells me they did it the ‘Leopard Way’.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2021 at 10:04 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
This year’s Bishop Reicher boy’s basketball team is special, and with a win over Legacy Christian tonight, the team became historic.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 8:03 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Lady Bears are your outright Big-12 regular season champions.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 7:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Youth softball is starting back up, but a league in central Texas says less girls are signed up than usual.Elizabeth Park is on the Temple Youth Softball Board, and she tells me, “After COVID hit, last year, we had a lot of kids that dropped out of the program.”The registration numbers never recovered, and, frankly, neither have the kids, who have been cooped-up inside for much of the pandemic.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 2:15 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
This week's Texas Best Chevy Dealers Classroom Champion is Academy's Tanner Rambeau.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 10:43 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor volleyball team returns to action Thursday to play the second half of the season which has been split by COVID. You would have a hard time finding someone more excited for volleyball to be back than Yossiana Pressley. Yossi was named the National Player of the Year last year and helped the Bears make a deep tournament run.This Fall, she became Baylor’s all-time kill leader now, but she hasn’t always been this good.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2021 at 8:00 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Belton High School basketball team often talks about the team as a family. For TJ and Trap Johnson, it is family. TJ is in his third year starting for the Tigers, and he has established himself as the team’s leader. Trap is just a freshman on the team, but he has earned his place among the varsity players with his great skill and shooting. Still, TJ was a little uneasy about having his little brother join the mix.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2021 at 11:20 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Local High school basketball playoff scores from Saturday, February 20th
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 11:22 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
As weather shut down schools across central Texas this week, the high school basketball playoffs fell victim to numerous postponements.The UIL today announced some changes to the postseason schedule to help make sure every playoff game gets played.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2021 at 8:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
A member of the sixth-ranked Baylor equestrian team is receiving major honors. Madaline Callaway was named the National Reining Rider of the month for January.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 11:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
This week’s Texas Best Chevy Dealers Classroom Champion is Koby Hollingsworth from Axtell High School.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2021 at 11:55 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Two former Mary-Hardin Baylor student athletes find themselves back in the purple and gold - but instead of wearing jerseys, they now wear whistles.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2021 at 11:29 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Youth football in central Texas will look different moving forward, as local leagues introduce “flex football”. The Midway Premier League is teaming up with Gridiron to have a play style that bridges the gap between flag football and tackle football.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2021 at 4:59 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Cru rolls to 41-0 shutout win
Updated: Feb. 2, 2021 at 9:47 AM CST
|By Christopher Williams
It seems like almost every good Division 1 football team has a Texas QB at the helm. Lately, that success has translated over to the NFL. At one point this season, 25% of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL graduated from Texas high schools.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 3:46 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Marlin Bulldogs have their new leader.The school district announced today that Ruben Torres III will serve as head football coach and assistant athletic director.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2021 at 7:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Fifteen days after losing to Iowa State, the Lady Bears got their revenge. Baylor, traveling to Ames, Iowa for a Big-12 conference match up with the Cyclones. Iowa State had beat the Lady Bears twice in a row coming into the game, but Baylor made sure the streak wouldn’t get to three.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2021 at 6:49 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor men’s basketball team taking a break from conference play to host Auburn in the Big-12 vs SEC Challenge.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 11:22 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
West High School's Kylee Jones is a Texas Best Chevy Dealers Classroom Champion.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 1:13 AM CST
|By Christopher Williams
A Baylor pole vaulter is receiving national attention.KC Lightfoot will soon tryout for a chance to compete in the Olympics. In the meantime, he’s racking up ‘Athlete of the Week’ accolades from the Big-12 Conference and USA track and field.All he had to do to receive the honors? Set a new NCAA record!
Updated: Jan. 24, 2021 at 11:36 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
At this point, it is hard for the Dosseys to calculate the exact number of family members who have worn the green and gold...“I think that, including Luke, it’s around 35,” estimates Cooper Dossey. Cooper and his younger brother Luke are both on the Baylor golf team.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2021 at 11:40 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Nalyssa Smith, Moon Ursin, and Trinity Oliver led the way for Baylor. Smith had a team-high 21 points, while Ursin and Oliver ended with 14 apiece. The Lady Bears won the game 84 to 61. They host TCU at the Ferrell Center on Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2021 at 7:23 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor men’s basketball team is coming back from Stillwater, OK with a perfect record, but it wasn’t smooth sailing.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 11:00 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The La Vega boys basketball team has now won nine straight games after taking care of District rival China Spring.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2021 at 5:34 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
There is yet another top five team that calls Waco home. The McLennan Highlanders baseball team is ranked number five in the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) DI Baseball Preseason Poll.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 at 10:04 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
It is the premiere matchup in College Basketball this week - #2 Baylor vs #9 Kansas.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 8:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The high school power lifting season is getting underway for more and more central Texas schools.Like other sports, things will look completely different this year, but the athletes are happy to do whatever they need to as long as they get to compete in the sport they love.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 12:28 AM CST
|By Christopher Williams
It has been two weeks since the Lady Bears played a basketball game.In fact, it has been about that long since the team had a full practice. Coming off a span of paused team activities, which saw one game canceled and two others postponed, the team was understandably rusty.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 6:50 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
After a scrappy, physical, and sometimes sloppy game, the Baylor Bears leave Lubbock with a 68-60 win.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 4:53 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
There will be a new man in charge of the Troy football program next Fall. Trojans Head Coach and Athletic Director, Ronnie Porter, confirmed today that he is leaving the program to spend more time with his family.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 11:34 AM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The NCAA recently decided to allow all division I transfers to play immediately this year. The committee says it made the decision in order to best support the well-being of these student athletes during uncertain times.Transfers and mental health experts say it is already making a big difference.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2021 at 7:07 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Baylor’s losing streak in Fort Worth is over! The Bears raced to a 67-49 win behind 28 points from Jared Butler.Coming into the game, Baylor had lost 3 straight in Ft. Worth.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 11:35 AM CST
|By Christopher Williams
With the win over Iowa State on Saturday, Baylor’s head basketball coach now has 371 career wins. Though impressive, that may seem like a random number to celebrate. However, that mark matches the number of Division 1 basketball games won by another “Coach Drew”... Scott’s father.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 1:25 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Coronavirus has cast a shadow of doubt in the minds of many rodeo fans, who may not feel safe attending in-person, or just don’t know which events are still on.This makes the Ram Texas Circuit Rodeo Finals in Waco this weekend that much more special.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2021 at 1:36 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Lady Bears are without their head coach today for their match up with TCU.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2021 at 1:03 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
With big cities canceling their indoor competitions amid the pandemic, organizers tell me the Expo Pole Vault Explosion in Bell County this weekend is the biggest indoor vaulting competition in the world.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2020 at 1:50 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor men’s and women’s basketball programs return to campus this week after heading home for Christmas break, and both teams remain near the top of the latest AP poll released Monday.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 2:08 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
A former local high school football player is making a name for himself on the national stage. Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson was recently named a college football All-American for his play at TCU.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2020 at 1:05 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
With the success of the Baylor men’s and women’s basketball programs, there has been a buzz around the sport here in central Texas. Now, a professional team called the Waco Royals is joining the mix.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2020 at 2:23 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
A former star basketball player from Vanguard College Prep in Waco raised money for a major shopping spree - buying over $10,000 worth of toys for kids who are receiving treatment at Dell Children’s Medical Center this holiday season.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 6:43 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Tanner Mordecai, who graduated from Midway High school in Waco, announced today that he is transferring to SMU.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 5:06 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Baylor football is parting ways with two offensive coaches as the program looks to rebuild.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 1:13 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor Men’s basketball team will be fitting one extra game in before the end of the New Year.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 12:14 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Courtnee Cash has been named a Semper Fidelis All-American. This award is presented by the US Marine Corp to top-tier athletes who display outstanding character, academic excellence, and community leadership.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 6:24 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
Several high school athletes from across central Texas signed with college football programs.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 4:39 PM CST
|By Christopher Williams
The Baylor football program is using "Early signing day" to start the rebuilding process after a disappointing season, adding 18 recruits for the class of 2021.