Assistant Coach
JnDavis@mail.wvu.edu
(304) 293-9876
Former Mountaineer distance runner Jennifer Davis is back for her third season as an assistant coach at her alma mater.
In 2008, Davis helped coach WVU’s cross country team to its highest finish in school history, leading the Mountaineers to a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Championships, and guided juniors Marie-Louise Asselin and Keri Bland to their second consecutive All-America titles. The squad also was the NCAA Mid-Atlantic team champions, while a record-setting six runners were named to theall-Mid-Atlantic Region team.
The fourth-place accomplishment topped the 2007 record-setting finish of ninth-place. That team won the BIG EAST title for the first time ever and produced two All-Americans in Asselin and Bland, as well as three all-BIG EAST and all-region performancers.
During the track season, Davis worked with the distance medley relay squad that finished fourth in the country. She also helped Alison Spiker qualify for the NCAA regionals in the steeplechase, despite never previously running the event in her career.
Prior to her full-time promotion in 2007, the Romney, W.Va., native had been a volunteer assistant to Sean Cleary since 2005 and was responsible for steeplechase training, while coordinating home cross country meets. Davis administered workouts for the program’s middle-and long-distance runners. She also worked with six NCAA individual qualifiers from 2005-07.
From 2003-07, Davis worked 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 (800-3200-meter). She also oversaw 14 members who 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 under then-assistant coach Cleary.
In track, Davis was the first West Virginia native to run the 1,600-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.
She resides in Morgantown.
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