Cross Country/Track: Cleary Hires Assistant Coach
October 05, 2007 11:34 AM | General
October 5, 2007
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| Jennifer Davis |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University track and cross country coach Sean Cleary today announced that former Mountaineer runner Jennifer Davis has been named an assistant coach.
“We are excited to welcome Jennifer to our coaching staff,” Cleary says. “She holds the distinction of being the state’s finest distance runner and I know she will be a great asset to our program.”
The Romney, W.Va., native had been a volunteer assistant to Cleary since 2005 and was responsible for steeplechase training while also coordinating home cross country meets. Davis also administered workouts for the program’s middle and long distance runners. Davis worked with six NCAA individual qualifiers from 2005-07.
“I feel privileged to come back to my alma mater at such an exciting time in the program,” Davis says. “I hope to help this team improve to a higher level than it has ever experienced.”
Davis has spent the last five years working as an assistant coach with the West Virginia Flyers club. Davis administered workouts, assisted with meet management and served as the web manager for the running club. During that span, the club produced 45 West Virginia high school state champions in the middle and long distance events (800m-3200m). She also oversaw 14 members who eventually received Division I scholarships.
Davis ran track and cross country at WVU from 2001-05 and qualified for NCAA competition five times in cross country, the distance medley relay and 5,000 meters. She captained and helped guide the WVU cross country team to a Mid-Atlantic regional championship in 2004.
In track, Davis was the first West Virginia native to run the 1600 meters in less than five minutes. She also earned All-America honors twice as the anchor of the distance medley relay team. She has the second fastest time in the steeplechase (10:42.58) at WVU and was a member of the school record holding 4x800 relay team (8:48.07) in 2003. In 2005, she captured the ECAC 3,000 meter title with a time of 9:33.61. A four-time BIG EAST academic all-star, Davis was twice named an academic All-American.
Davis received her bachelor’s degree in English from WVU in 2005 and finished her master’s in elementary education in the fall of 2006.
