Florida 2B Mia Williams enters NCAA transfer portal

Florida second baseman Mia Williams has entered the NCAA transfer portal, On3’s Pete Nakos has learned. The daughter of former NBA star Jason Williams, she was an All-American this past season.

Williams put together a breakout year in 2025, hitting .335 with 19 home runs and 44 RBI as a sophomore. Her slugging percentage also jumped to .714 as she helped Florida make a run to the Women’s College World Series, which ended with a loss to Tennessee last week.

For her efforts, Williams was an NFCA Second Team All-American and a Second Team All-SEC selection. A product of Windermere (Fla.) Windermere Prep, she will have two years of eligibility remaining.

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As a freshman in 2024, Williams hit .165 with six home runs and 18 RBI while starting 59 games out of 65 appearances. She made her mark in the SEC Tournament, though, with two three-run home runs and six RBI over three games to earn a spot on the all-tournament team. That set the stage for the leap forward as a sophomore in 2025.

Mia Williams’ father is one of Florida’s most notable basketball stars. Jason Williams spent the 1997-98 season in Gainesville after transferring from Marshall. He averaged 17.1 points and 6.7 assists before becoming the No. 7 overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft.

Williams then played in the league from 1998-2011 with the Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat and Orlando Magic. Nicknamed “White Chocolate,” he won a championship with Miami in 2006.

Florida softball went 48-17 this season, including a 14-10 mark in SEC play, as the Gators advanced to the WCWS. They hosted both the Regional and Super Regional in the NCAA Tournament, taking down Georgia 5-2 in the Super Regional to punch a ticket to Oklahoma City. UF fell to Texas in the opening game at Devon Park and suffered a season-ending loss to Tennessee in the double-elimination bracket.

After that final loss, Tim Walton called for a change in training methods within the program. That said, he said he’s proud of the way Florida went through the season despite the tough ending.

“I’m never satisfied,” Walton said. “We have players on our team that have to develop a little bit more. We have coaches on our staff that have to do a little bit more, and there’s a lot of things.

“And I think I said this in our super regional, we’re having to modify our training methods because we have more athletes coming into our program that are injured along the way. So just have to figure out how we can do a better job to still put pressure on our athletes, get them tougher and stronger without impacting their normal career after softball, you know, their life.”