Missouri State

Honors

• All-GLVC: 2025 (second team)
• GLVC Freshman of the Year: 2024
• GLVC All-Freshman Team: 2024
• Academic All-GLVC: 2024

Truman State
2024-25: Averaged a team-best 14.5 points per game for coach Jeff Horner’s Bulldogs as a sophomore … Started all 29 games and averaged 5.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists for a 17-12 squad … Converted 54 three-pointers and shot 48.6 percent from the field, 38.8 percent from three and 84.8 percent at the line … Earned All-GLVC second-team distinction in 2024-25, finishing 16^th in the conference in scoring and 9th in free throw percentage … 2023-24: As a freshman at Truman, he earned GLVC Freshman of the Year distinction after averaging 12.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists while starting all 29 games for a 15-14 club ... Scored in double figures 17 games times with 3 games of 20 or more points, including a season-best 29 at Quincy (1/11/24) with 6 threes … Was second on the team with 54 three-pointers and shot 43 percent from distance and 75 percent at the line (85-for-114) … Was also on the GLVC All-Freshman Team and earned Academic All-GLVC laurels.

High School
Named Missouri’s Class 5 Player of the Year, St. Louis Metro Player of the Year and Metro League Player of the Year as a senior (2022-23) at Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis … Averaged 23.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game as a senior for a 20-10 Wildcats team … Earned all-state, all-state, all-metro and all-conference distinction … Was an all-district and all-state selection his junior year for a 26-2 squad while averaging 13.5 points per game … Scored 13.3 points per game as part of a 23-6 Wildcats team his sophomore year that finished second in the state … Westminster was 24-5 his freshman season … Scored 1,608 career points … Led head coach Dale Ribble, a former Bear, to 93 total wins, three district titles and a state runner-up finish in 2020-21.
 
Personal
Jakobi Ethan Williams was born 5/28/05 in St. Louis … Son of Emile and Sharman Williams of St. Louis … Father played college football at Edinboro (Pa.) … Has three brothers, EJ, Aaron and Andre, and a sister, Jordan … Plans to major in Finance.