Ohio University

Updated: Jan. 14, 2025

Canyon McWilliams joined the baseball staff prior to the 2023 season as an assistant coach.

In 2024, McWilliams assisted the Bobcats in placing five players on the Academic All-MAC team and three players on the CSC Academic All-District Team. McWilliams also helped coach Gideon Antle and JR Nelson as the two players earned All-MAC honors following the end of the regular season.

During the 2023 season, in McWilliams first year as a coach, he helped the Bobcats to a 15-15 conference record. McWilliams was crucial in developing the players both at the plate and on the field.   

In 2022, McWilliams finished his playing career at University of Arkansas - Little Rock while earning his masters in sports management. There, he started in all 50 games in 2022, hit .382 (third in the Sun Belt Conference) with 10 homeruns and 50 RBIs (eighth in the SBC). McWilliams finished in the top 10 in the Sun Belt in several offensive categories, including hits (73, seventh), slugging (.634, eighth), and OPS (1.079, seventh), as well as finishing the season on a 16-game hit streak, the longest streak in the Sun Belt all season.  
 
McWilliams’ 2021 season was cut short after sustaining a season-ending injury. Prior to the injury, McWilliams had a .300 batting average and one home run in seven games. Notably, he recorded the first ever hit at Oklahoma State's brand-new ballpark, O'Brate Stadium. Later the same game, he hit the first home run by an Oklahoma State opponent in the new stadium 
 
Prior to Little Rock, McWilliams spent the 2018-20 seasons with Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He was an All-Conference selection for the NCAC as a two-way player in both 2018 and 2019, hitting .414 and .392 in those years, respectively. After his senior season was cut short due to Covid-19 Pandemic, McWilliams graduated with a bachelors in mathematics.  
 
McWilliams began his career at Florida Southern College in 2017, spending one season with the Moccasins as a pitcher. 
 
McWilliams is from Shaker Heights, Ohio. He was a four-year letter winner at Shaker Heights High School in baseball as well as a two-year letter winner in golf.