Chris Davidson enters his sixth year as the assistant men’s ice hockey coach for the Purple Knights in 2005-06. As a full-time assistant, he is responsible for coordinating the recruiting effort for the men’s program, and assists Coach DiMasi with every aspect of coaching the team.

A four-year letterwinner with 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 also enters his second season as the Saint Michael’s golf coach in 2005, the seventh coach in the program's 50-year history.

Davidson is a native of Clinton, N.Y.

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