10/23/07 - Golf
Saint Michael's
NEIGA Championship
24th of 42
@ The Captains GC, Brewster, Mass.
The Captains GC, Brewster, Mass.

 

 


 
 

Golf

Chris Davidson
third season


Chris Davidson, the seventh coach in the 51-year history of the Saint Michael's golf program, enters his third season at the helm in 2006. In his second season as head coach, Davidson guided the Purple Knights to a seventh-place finish in the Northeast-10 Conference Championship (moving up four spots from the previous season), and a 35th-place finish in the NEIGA Championship.

In addition to his golf duties, Davidson is in his seventh year as the assistant men's ice hockey coach for the Purple Knights. As a full-time assistant, he is responsible for coordinating the recruiting effort for the men's program, and assists Head Coach Lou DiMasi with every aspect of coaching the team.

A four-year letterwinner on the ice for the Purple Knights, Davidson was voted captain of the 1998-99 squad that captured the NCAA Division II title, the only NCAA national championship ever won by a Saint Michael's program. SMC won the title in a best-of-three series over Southern New Hampshire University. Davidson was honored by being named to the NCAA All-Tournament team after recording a goal and an assist in the series. During his senior season he tallied nine goals and 14 assists for 23 points as one of the team's leading defenders.

Davidson received a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Michael's in 1999, and spent the following year as the assistant men's hockey coach at Manhattanville College before returning to his alma mater in the fall of 2000. While at Manhattanville, he began working on his master's degree in Education, which he will finish at Saint Michael's.

Prior to coming to Saint Michael's, he spent a post-graduate year at the Berkshire School before playing college hockey.

He has worked numerous youth hockey camps and clinics over the years and directs the SMC hockey camp in the summer.

Davidson is a native of Clinton, N.Y.