Pat Williams
Vice President and Co-Founder
Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association

Our guest speaker will be Pat Williams, Senior Vice President and Co-Founder of the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. Pat Williams is a native of Delaware, a graduate of Wake Forest (bachelors), Indiana University, (masters), and has a doctorate in Humane Letters from Flagler University. Pat Williams is a member of the Wake Forest and the Delaware Halls of Fame. Since 1968, he has been associated with National Basketball Association teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia (including the 1983 World Champion 76ers), and now the Orlando Magic which he co-founded in 1987. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA playoffs, and five of them made it to the NBA finals. In his NBA career, he has traded/traded for/drafted/signed such stars as "Pistol Pete" Maravich, Julius "Dr.J" Erving, Moses Malone, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Maurice Cheeks, and Darryl Dawkins. Pat and his wife, Pat, are parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 17 to 31. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat teaches an adult Sunday school class, hosts a weekly sports radio show, is a weight lifter, a Civil War buff, and a serious baseball fan (every winter he plays in in Major League fantasy camps). In the last six years, he has completed 27 marathons, including the Boston Marathon eight times, and has also climbed Mount Rainier. Pat has been the featured speaker at two Billy Graham crusades and two Peter Lowe Success Seminars. Pat is also the author of 30 books.