ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Coming off a career-best individual performance and a program-best result in the team competition at the 2022 NCAA Championship, senior Josh Williams of the Navy gymnastics team was selected as this week's NAAA Athlete of the Week presented by Northrop Grumman.

Williams helped spearhead Navy's highest-ever finish at the NCAA Championship this past weekend with his efforts on the rings, floor exercise and vault. Competing in his final NCAA Championship, Williams played a key role in Navy finishing seventh overall in the field at the University of Oklahoma on Friday night. The Mids' previous best finish was tenth in 2019. After posting a 13.9 on the rings, a 13.566 on the floor exercise and a 13.833 on the vault, Williams advanced to two event finals on Saturday night. In the event finals, Williams' score of 13.933 on the rings ranked within the top-five for most of the night until Stanford's entire five-man lineup scored over 14.0 on the apparatus. Williams finished tenth of 45 competitors, just 0.067 points out of eighth and All-American status.

One of eight finalists for the Nissen-Emery Award as the premier senior student-athlete in NCAA Gymnastics this past season, Williams concludes his career with a pair of ECAC Championships, in 2019 for the rings and in 2022 for the floor exercise. The Cypress, Texas native also qualified for and competed in the event finals of the NCAA Championship in two of the three years that the nation-wide meet was held, in 2021 for his work on the floor exercise and rings and again in 2022 for the same two events. During the 2022 regular season, Williams posted the nation's third-best scoring average on the rings at 14.188.