Coaching Staff
Head Coach
Tamika Williams-Jeter
Dayton women's basketball head coach Tamika Williams-Jeter is entering her second season at the helm of the Flyers in 2023-24.
In her first season in charge, Williams-Jeter focused on putting together a competitive team and experienced coaching staff while facing a challenging schedule in and out of Atlantic 10 play. The Flyers finished the season with a 7-21 record overall, but went 5-10 in A-10 play, earning the No. 12 seed in the 2023 A-10 Championship tournament. Williams-Jeter earned her first win in charge of Dayton on Dec. 29 with a home win over Cedarville and her first postseason victory for the Flyers with a first-round win over VCU in Delaware. Senior Sydney Freeman reached the 1,000-point mark in her career while redshirt-senior Mariah Perez recorded 12 double-doubles on the season.
Williams-Jeter has been successful at every level of basketball, both as a player and as a coach. From a stellar playing career at the top levels of high school, college, and professionally, to coaching stops at Division I powerhouses such as Kansas, Kentucky, Penn State, and Ohio State, and head coaching experience at Wittenberg and with the India National Team, she has been a winner everywhere she goes. Williams-Jeter has helped advance the game for women athletes and coaches, both domestically and internationally.
Williams-Jeter joins the Flyers from Wittenberg University where she has served as a head coach last season, leading the Tigers to an 18-8 record overall, a NCAC Tournament Championship, and the 2022 NCAA Division III Tournament. During the season, Wittenberg rode a 10-game winning streak to the conference championship which included a win over 10th-ranked DePauw. It was their first national tournament appearance since 2014-15.
Prior to her time at Wittenberg, Williams-Jeter had assistant coaching stints at prominent Division I programs such as Ohio State, Penn State, Kentucky, and Kansas. She helped lead those programs to eight NCAA Division I Tournaments and 11 postseason season appearances overall.
Coming out of high school at nearby Chaminade-Julienne, Williams-Jeter was the No. 1 recruit in the nation and two-time Ohio Player of the Year. The former forward was named Ohio Miss Basketball and led the Eagles to their first ever Final Four appearance. A highly sought-after recruit and arguably the best women’s basketball player to ever come out of Dayton, Williams-Jeter went on to UConn as part of the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation in 1998.
Collegiately, Williams-Jeter had a Ring of Honor playing career at the University of Connecticut where she won two national championships in 2000 and 2002. She earned National Freshman of the Year honors from The Sporting News and was Big East Rookie of the Year. She went on to be named Most Outstanding Performer at the 2000 Big East Tournament en route to her first national title and received All-America Honorable Mention accolades as part of her second championship in 2002. Williams-Jeter was a Naismith Player of the Year candidate her senior season as well. Her career field goal percentage of 70.3 percent is the current NCAA Division I record.
While at UConn, she served as the president of the Huskies’ student-athlete advisory committee.
Williams-Jeter went into coaching after playing professionally for seven seasons in the WNBA. She was selected in the 2002 WNBA Draft with the No. 6 overall pick by the Minnesota Lynx and earned WNBA All-Rookie team honors her first year. She finished with over 1,400 points and 1,100 rebounds in her career, and set a WNBA single-season field goal accuracy record in 2003 at 66.8 percent that still stands today.
Williams-Jeter earned her bachelor’s degree from UConn in interpersonal communication. She and her husband Richard have two sons, R.J. and Jojo.
Assistant Coach
Bryce Agler
University of Dayton women's basketball head coach Tamika Williams-Jeter has announced the addition of Bryce Agler to the staff as an assistant coach.
"I am ecstatic to have Bryce on our staff," said Coach Williams-Jeter. "I've known his family since 2002. He's an Ohio native, born and raised. He knows the landscape of the state when it comes to girls basketball and the history behind a storied program like the University of Dayton. What makes Bryce special is he has coached at Division I mid-major and Power 5, and in the WNBA. He has what we need at this level to win. No matter where you go, you want a staff that can prepare people for the next level if they choose. We want that option here for every kid to be trained like a pro. I am super excited to have Bryce on staff to help grow our young women every day, both on and off the court."
"I am so thankful to Coach Williams-Jeter and Dayton Athletics for the great opportunity to return to my home state and to be part of such a fantastic basketball program," said Agler. "Dayton Women's Basketball has both a storied history and great current momentum. I'm excited to be part of taking the program to the next level. Go Flyers!"
Agler joins Flyer nation after spending the 2021-22 season at Pitt where he served as the Director of Video and Player Performance for the Panthers. His focus of identifying and producing collegiate talent that is transferrable to the professional level is a mission he brings to Dayton.
Agler brings five years of WNBA experience as an assistant coach and player development coach in the professional ranks with both the Dallas Wings and Los Angeles Sparks. He was a part of two WNBA Finals appearances and a 2016 WNBA Championship with the Sparks. He served on the staff under his father, head coach Brian Agler, who is now the Director of Athletics at Wittenberg.
Before taking the leap to the pros, Agler spent time on the staff at Southern Methodist University in 2017-18 as the video coordinator for the women's program. With the Mustangs, he created and assisted in all video and scouting reports for opponents, helped with in-game preparations and in-game decisions while also designing an offseason video workout program for incoming players.
Agler started his collegiate coaching career at Eastern Illinois University in 2014, serving as assistant coach, recruiting coordinator, and video coordinator. He was there for two seasons, 2014-16.
A graduate of nearby Wittenberg University, Coach Williams-Jeter's most recent coaching stop, Agler received his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with a minor in sport management in 2014. While there, he was a student coach with the men's program.
Assistant Coach
Kalisha Keane
Kalisha Keane was named an assistant coach with the Dayton women's basketball program in April 2022.
Keane comes to Dayton after three seasons at Long Island University, where she served as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. She spent two seasons before that at her alma mater Michigan State University as a graduate assistant.
Prior to her return to Michigan State, Keane played six seasons professionally in Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Slovakia and Australia, concluding her career with the Melbourne Boomers in 2016-17.
A Scarborough, Ontario native, she played on the Canadian Senior National Team. She represented her country at the FIBA Americas Championship twice, earning a bronze medal in 2011 and averaged 7.5 points and three rebounds per game on the way to a silver medal in 2013.
Keane was a four-year standout for Michigan State from 2007-11, earning All-Big Ten honors each season. She became the program's sixth All-American and first Big Ten Player of the Year in 2010-11 after averaging 16.1 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.4 steals and 2.3 assists per game. In 2009-10, she became the Spartan's first Big Ten Sixth Player of the Year after an All-Big Ten First Team season with 9.5 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 steals in 33 games. Keane finished her career tied for the most games played with 136, second in steals with 259, third in 3-point field goals made with 183, and seventh in points with 1,553.
She served as co-founder and directory of women's outreach and development at Love Live Hoop from 2012-17.
Keane graduated from Michigan State with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2011, and earned her master's degree in Sports Administration.