{"id":830389,"date":"2026-03-24T04:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:08:26","slug":"michigan-football-hires-alayna-williamson-as-new-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830389\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Football hires Alayna Williamson as new chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Michigan football program has made another addition to its support staff ahead of the 2026 season, making the hire of Chief of Staff Alayna Williamson official on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Williamson comes to Michigan after serving the same role under head coach Kyle Whittingham at Utah starting in 2024. Her hire continues a trend of additions of both on-field and administrative staff from Utah since Whittingham\u2019s hire in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prior to serving as Utah\u2019s chief of staff, Williamson worked for the University of Utah in a variety of roles, including as the director of undergraduate admissions and scholarships from 2020-24. She was also the director of business scholars from 2015-24. She is a graduate of the University of Utah as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As Michigan\u2019s new chief of staff, she will be assisting in overseeing the program\u2019s operations and working with athletes to grow their professional networks while supporting their academic success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan football program has made another addition to its support staff ahead of the 2026 season, making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,580,52888,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-830389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-michigan-football","10":"tag-michigan-football-news","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116282189849347963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}