Kevin Davis joins the conference with 15+ years of experience in communications and public relations. He joins us after serving as the Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Media Relations at Coastal Carolina University. He has also spent time at Georgia Tech, Bowling Green, Gardner-Webb and Brevard College.
During his five years at CCU, the Chanticleers experienced success across the board in the athletics department. The football team won the program's first-ever FBS Bowl game in 2021 and its first-ever FBS conference championship in 2020. The men's baseball team won the 2019 Sun Belt Championship Tournament, 2023 Sun Belt Regular-Season Championship, and reached three NCAA Regionals (2019, 2021, and 2023), including hosting in 2023, while the women's golf team and men's soccer team also won conference championship titles.
Davis worked with several All-America honorees across football, baseball, and track & field, as well as the promotion of football head coach Jamey Chadwell earning a total of 12 coach of the year honors in 2020. He has also helped promote an individual NCAA National Champion, the first in the University's history, as well as two World Champions and U.S. Track & Field National Champions.
With football, he has helped promote the three-time Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year (2020, 2021, and 2022) Grayson McCall, 2020 Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year Tarron Jackson, 2020 Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year D'Jordan Strong, 2020 Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year in McCall, and 2022 Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year Jared Brown. In baseball, he helped to promote 2019 Sun Belt Conference Newcomer of the Year in Jake Wright and 2022 Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Year Reid VanScoter, while in track & field, he has had several conference individual honors in Sun Belt Conference Most Outstanding Performer of the Year (2019, 2020, and 2021) for both indoor and outdoor track & field, Sun Belt Conference Newcomers of the Year (2019 and 2020), and Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year (2019 and 2020).
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Davis also worked with the University Communications and Marketing department on campus as part of the essential communications team.
Davis joined Coastal Carolina after two years as an assistant director of athletic communications and public relations at Georgia Tech of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). At Tech, he served as the primary contact for baseball and both men's and women's swimming and diving, as well as the secondary contact for the football program.
While at Georgia Tech, Davis helped promote seven all-conference football players and seven all-conference baseball players, as well as the 2018 ACC Player and Defensive Player of the Year in Joey Bart. Bart, who was also Tech's first-ever Johnny Bench Award winner, also became the highest pick in Tech history when he went No. 2 overall in the first round of the 2018 MLB Draft. Overall, the Yellow Jackets had five players selected in the MLB Draft in Davis' two-year tenure at GT.
Prior to his time on The Flats, Davis spent three years as an assistant director for athletic communications at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. At BGSU he aided in the public relations efforts for BGSU's 18-sport department of athletics and served as the primary contact for men's basketball, volleyball, and both the men's and women's golf programs. He handled all interview and media requests for coaches and student-athletes for all four teams and was also in charge of the production of media guides, game notes, and statistical responsibilities for those respective programs.
Davis also served as the primary contact for women's soccer and as the secondary contact for the football team, aiding with media credential requests, game notes, interview requests, and gameday activities such as pregame setup, in-game statistics, and postgame press conferences.
In his three years at BGSU, he helped to promote nine MAC all-conference selections, two MAC all-freshman team honorees, and two MAC all-tournament team members. In 2014-15, he aided in the promotion of Richaun Holmes to become a second-round, No. 37th, pick in the 2015 NBA Draft – becoming the first NBA Draft Pick from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) since 2003 and the first from BGSU since 1997.
He also worked with the 2015 MAC Men's Basketball Defensive Player of the Year in Holmes and helped endorse Brett Rinker to be named the 2014 MAC Men's Golf Freshman of the Year.
From July 2011 until November 2013, Davis was the director of sports information at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C. where he oversaw the media relations, event management, and social media efforts for a total of seven NCAA Division I, Big South Conference, and Southern Conference athletic programs, as well as aided on a day-to-day basis with all 22 varsity programs.
Davis also served as the assistant director of athletic media relations at Gardner-Webb for two years prior to his promotion to the director of sports information in July 2011.
During his time at Gardner-Webb, the women's basketball program advanced to the NCAA Division I National Championship Tournament (2010-11), the WNIT (2009-10), and won the program's first-ever Big South Conference regular-season championship (2009-10) and its first-ever Big South Championship Tournament (2010-11), while the men's basketball team made its first-ever postseason tournament as an NCAA Division I member as it hosted Eastern Kentucky in the first round of the CollegeInsiders.com Tournament (2012-13).
Davis began his career in sports information at his alma mater, Gardner-Webb University, where he was the athletic media relations graduate assistant from August 2005 to June 2007. He handled the public relations, event management, and statistics for men's soccer, women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, and men's and women's golf. The 2006 men's soccer team won the 2006 Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Championship and advanced to the second round of the 2006 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer College Cup.
After graduating with his master's degree in sports science and pedagogy in June 2007, Davis served as the director of marketing and sports information at Brevard College prior to returning to Gardner-Webb in January 2009. At Brevard, an NCAA Division II school in Brevard, N.C., Davis started the sports information office from the ground up and was the primary contact for all 18 varsity-sponsored athletic teams. He was also in charge of the entire athletic department's marketing effort and was a regular guest and host on the weekly local radio talk show "Tornado Talk".
Davis has served as the assistant director and official tournament statistician for several Big South Conference Tournaments, including men's soccer, volleyball, and men's and women's golf, while also working as the official statistician at the 2011-12 Big South Men's Basketball Championship Tournament.
Davis is a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), and is a former member of the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA).
A 2005 graduate of Gardner-Webb, where he earned his bachelor's degree in sports management with a double minor in Spanish and public relations, Davis also completed his master's degree in the summer of 2007 from GWU.