Milton Williams was named the head track and cross country coach in December 2004 after three seasons as associate head coach. In Aug. 2014, Williams became the Director of Track & Field/Cross Country at Little Rock.

Williams has been named the Sun Belt Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year once on the women's side in 2005 and three times for the men in 2007, 2010 and 2012. In the 2012 season, Williams helped his men's team to the 2012 Sun Belt Championship for the fifth time in school history.

Williams brings several years of experience into his role as head coach for the track and field cross country programs at Little Rock. Besides his coaching background, Williams has also competed – and been successful – at Olympic-level venues. He was an NAIA All-American in the shot put in 1980 and a 1984 Olympic trial qualifier in the shot put as well. Williams' most recent honor was being inducted into the Arkansas Track & Field Hall of Fame in June 2013.

Since joining Little Rock, Williams has worked with Chris Johnson, the first Trojan male athlete to be selected as All-American twice in one year. Johnson – a seven-time NCAA qualifier who graduated in 2005 – holds four Little Rock school records (indoor 60, 100; outdoor 100, 200) and won three Sun Belt Conference championships. James Lundberg, who graduated in 2007, set four school records in jumps, won a Sun Belt championship, and has qualified for the NCAAs four times while working with Williams.

Williams has also worked with Whitney Kerth, the first female or male cross country athlete to receive four NCAA All-Region Cross Country honors and 10 career Sun Belt Conference Runner of the Week honors. A 2010 graduate, Kerth also earned four All-Sun Belt conference honors.

During the 2012 cross country season, Williams was named the Sun Belt Conference Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading the team to the league championship.

The 2012 Sun Belt Indoor season saw Nathan Carr repeat as the 800-meter indoor champion, becoming the first Little Rock athlete since Leo Settle (1997-98) to capture back-to-back indoor championships in the same event. The indoor championships also saw the Trojans win both the men's and women's distance medley relays.

The 2012 Outdoor season saw Demond Burns (100-meters, 200-meters), Taron Dunn (triple jump) and Jason Belt (discus throw) qualify for NCAA Regionals. Williams also coached Burns to a new indoor track school record in the 200-meter dash and qualification for the NCAA West Regional in the 100 and 200 for outdoors. Nathan Carr won 800-meter run Sun Belt Conference titles for both indoor and outdoor becoming the first Trojan in that event to do so in the same season.

For the 2010, Williams coached the men's cross country team to a first-place finish. In the 2009 cross country season, the men took third place and the women's team finished in fifth place at the Sun Belt Conference Championships.  Two Trojans competed at the NCAA West Regional, including the first four-time straight regional competitor Kirby Atkins in the discus. Burns competed in both the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash and became the first Trojan since Johnson to advance to the semi-finals in the 200 meters.

In 2005, Williams was named the Sun Belt Conference Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year after the women's team won the Sun Belt Cross Country Championships. In 2007, he was named the Sun Belt Conference Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading the men's team to its first title since 2002.

Prior to Little Rock, Williams was head track and cross country coach at Cabot High School in his hometown of Cabot.

From 1986 to 1990, Williams was head strength and conditioning coach at Louisiana State University where he directed strength programs for all LSU teams, several of which went on to conference and national championships.

During his tenure in overseeing the weight and conditioning programs at LSU, Williams worked closely with four basketball players who were first-round NBA draft picks: Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Jackson, John Williams and Stanley Roberts.

Williams graduated from Arkansas-Monticello in 1982 and received his master's from Northeast Louisiana University in 1984.