Cell Phone: 720-810-6613
Email: chasdavis@berkeley.edu
Chas Davis enters his sixth year on the California men’s and women’s track & field and cross country coaching staffs in 2018-19. He previously served as a volunteer assistant coach beginning in August of 2013. Davis works with the distance corps and is also the associate recruiting coordinator.
Davis coached Bethan Knights to All-American honors in the 2018 season as Knights took 12th in the 5000m at the NCAA Indoor Championship. Knights also claimed two third-place finishes at the Pac-12 Championship as she earned bronze in the 10,000m in 2017 and 5,000m in 2016. Davis also helped Trent Brendel to a second-place finish in the 10,000m and Thomas Joyce to a bronze medal at the 2017 Pac-12 Championship. He guided the quartet of Sydney Gray, Jackie Chandler, Rebecca Croft and Knights to the MPSF Championship in the distance medley relay in 2016.
The women's cross country team finished 22nd at the NCAA Championship in 2017, marking their first team appearance in the competition in the past six years. Knights and Brie Oakley both earned USTFCCCA All-American honors as they finished in the top 40. Davis helped two members of the men's team reach the 2017 championship, marking the fourth straight year that the men's team was represented at the NCAA Cross Country Championship.
Prior to coming to Cal, Davis spent the previous four years as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach at Creighton University.
Prior to his appointment as the head coach with the Creighton program, he had served three seasons as the Bluejays’ assistant men’s and women’s cross country coach. Davis also served a one-year stint as a volunteer assistant coach for the women’s cross country and track & field programs at Oregon State.
A native of Centennial, Colo., Davis competed for Creighton where he earned All-Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete honors during his senior season in 2004.
Davis continued to compete post-collegiately for five years while coaching with the Boulder Running Company Athletics Club.
He graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in public relations and news journalism from Creighton in May of 2005.
