Coaches

Josh Davis

Josh Davis returns for his second season as Upper Iowa University’s head women’s soccer coach. Davis joined the Peacocks prior to the 2022 season after a year and a half at Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a NAIA institution in Goodwell, Oklahoma.


Davis led the Aggie women’s soccer program, which played in 2019 for the first time in university history, through the spring of 2021 before serving all of the 2021-22 year with the team.


Prior to his time at OPSU, Davis was the associate head coach at the University of North Dakota for the 2018 season. The University of North Dakota finished the season 9-6-2, which marked the program’s best record since moving to NCAA Division I. The Fighting Hawks only surrendered 10 goals to their opponents, while scoring 41 to lead the Summit League in both categories.


Before moving to Grand Forks, N.D., Davis spent four seasons in Moscow, Idaho as an associate head women’s soccer coach at the University of Idaho. During his time with the Vandals (2014-17), Davis was part of the staff that trained Big Sky Goalkeeper of the Year Amanda Poertner and two-time All-Big Sky performer Kavita Battan. Battan was the first player in program history to sign a professional contract. The 2015 Vandals team set program marks for wins, points, goals, assists, shutouts, goals against, and attendance.


A year later, Davis recruited 2016 Big Sky Freshman of the Year Emma Eddy to Moscow. For the second straight campaign, the Vandals led the league in goals scored and the fewest goals allowed. Overall, he mentored 47 Big Sky All-Academic honorees and 21 All-Big Sky selections, including seven first-teamers.


Before UND and Idaho, he was the first assistant coach at IUPU-Fort Wayne (2013-14). Before that, he was the first assistant at NCAA II California State University, San Bernardino (2013) and NCAA III Whittier College (2011-12). He began his college coaching career as a volunteer assistant at NCAA I California State University, Fullerton (2008-10).


Davis also served as the head varsity girls’ coach at Moscow High School for two seasons (2019-2020). The program set records in goals, assists, points and wins. Under the leadership of Davis, Moscow had its most successful season since the start of the program in 1999, winning the district title and reaching the Idaho State Tournament for the first time since 2011. Davis led the Inland Empire League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2019 and 2020 and coached 10 All league players and an Inland Empire League MVP.


Davis holds National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) certifications of Level I, II, and III Goalkeeper diploma (2008), a National Diploma (2010), NSCA Advanced National Diploma (2011), and the NSCAA Premier Diploma (2011).


As a player, Davis began by playing two seasons at Victor Valley Junior College (2002-04) before transferring to Hope International University in California (2004).


Davis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology from the California State University of Fullerton in 2009. He was awarded a Master of Arts in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University – Irvine in 2013.