“He won’t just be about wins and losses.”īut Shipley fans shouldn’t mistake Turner’s comments as a lack of competitive fire. “It came down to a Venn diagram of what the school needs and knowing who Alvin was when we were younger and tangentially over the past 25 years,” Turner says. Other than his relationship with Turner, Williams has no ties to Shipley and wasn’t familiar with its league.īut no one should mistake an unconventional choice with an error on the school’s part. But it’s worth noting that Williams has never coached at the high school or college level. He also started two seasons for the Raptors before spending four campaigns as an assistant coach and director of player development. Williams helped the Wildcats to the 1997 Big East title and was first-team all-conference that season. The goal is to be on par with Friends League rivals like Westtown and Main Line neighbors the Haverford School and Malvern Prep. The former Villanova standout has taken over a team with moderate recent success.
Turner is head of school, and Williams is the Gators’ new boys basketball coach. Williams no longer needs Turner to help him with algebra, and Turner doesn’t look at his friend any longer as “just a sophomore.” These days, each is part of the effort to level up Shipley in the Main Line’s crowded prep school hierarchy. Neither could’ve imagined they’d reconnect at Bryn Mawr’s Shipley School 30 years later. Photos by Tessa Marie Images Thanks to former Villanova University standout Alvin Williams, the Shipley Gators are on the path to score big.īack in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when Michael Turner was helping Alvin Williams with his math homework at Germantown Academy, they were just two high school kids hoping to play college ball someday-Turner on the gridiron and Williams on the basketball court.
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