Chas Davis Reviews

Chas is a well rounded coach who knows what he is doing. Every time I would speak to him, I would be shocked at how positive of an experience it was. Many coaches can be super unavailable and not friendly, and Chas is the exact opposite of that. If something comes up, he is happy to get together and work things through as both a coach and friend. He truly believes in his athletes, which is exactly what you need if you are truly striving to be the best runner and person you can be.

Super motivational and supportive

I have had many assistant coaches during my college running career and I would honestly say Coach Davis was the best one. He does a great job of keeping it professional as a coach while also expressing interest in his athletes' life and caring about them outside of athletics. Even when I was not performing well, he always expressed belief in me and encouraged me. He completely understood the importance of school and never once made me feel like I had to give up academic requirements for running. Since he was my assistant coach he did not write the majority of our workouts, but I remember always liking his workouts the days he was in charge and feeling like they were more tailored to me. He has a great personality as well, which helps make running and focusing on the process fun/enjoyable. I could not recommend Coach Davis more and so happy to see him doing well at Alaska. I have a friend running for him for next year and can't stop telling her how excited I am for her to have him as a coach. I appreciate Coach Davis's mentorship so much and can't thank him enough!

Chas has been there for me through so much. He was such an important coach in my college career. He believed in me, he pushed me to be better, and he looked out for our entire team. He truly cared about us outside of running and so many people never take that chance to. He is passionate about what he does and he knows how to coach people to not only be better runners but better people. There were so many times in my career that I contemplated moving on from running or going somewhere else and Chas was the one person who made me want to stay. He has always had my back and I know so many women and men I ran with feel the same. Chas is what the running world needs. We need more people who care and more people to advocate for athletes and he did all of this and more. He made my college running experience better and I cannot thank him enough!

I am also a current minority on the team. Notice all the negative posts were made on the same day, the same day that Coach had to remove one of our minority teammates for getting in trouble with the university. The same teammate (and their friends) who had been disciplined multiple times for other infractions, who were always late and never really liked to run or be on the team (but had too much financial incentive from the previous coach to quit). As a minority on the team, I’ve never experienced any racism, mysoginy or bias from Coach, nor has anyone else I’ve known. Those on the team who like to run and race have had nothing but positive experiences since he is approachable, encourages our participation in planning our training, always listens when something is wrong and just seems to really care about our well being and overall experience at UAA. Sure coach isn’t perfect like anyone, but the only person who I’ve heard had an overall bad experience was the person who got in trouble with the university multiple times. I think we know who these posters are..

Coach Davis has been huge for my success as a top NCAA D2 runner. He cares a ton and develops those who actually care about being contributors to our team.