Head coach Shalon Pillow announced Colby Davis as the assistant coach in October 2021.
Davis came to FAMU in October 2021 after serving as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Pearl River Community College from June 2021 to October 2021. While at Pearl River, Davis oversaw recruiting, managed social media, created graphics, film breakdowns, and developed guard and post players. Davis signed two out-of-state Division 1 transfers at Pearl River, leading scorer Anessa Dussette and second-leading scorer Tristen Washington from Northwestern State University.
Before Pearl River, Davis served on the South Alabama coaching staff as a graduate assistant coach, where she could get involved in several different areas of coaching. She organized and instructed guard workouts, completed scouting reports of opponents, assisted with recruiting efforts, constructed post-game defensive reports, led player film reviews, and many day-to-day tasks. Davis helped lead the Jaguars to the Sun Belt tournament semifinals during the 2019-2020 season and the quarterfinals in the 2020-2021 season. Davis helped lead First Team All-Sun Belt selections Shaforia Kines and Antoinette Lewis, who ended their USA careers with 1,000 and 1,500 points. She also helped lead Savannah Jones to the 1,000-point club and a Third Team All-Sun Belt Selection. Before joining the Jaguar staff, Davis worked as a personal trainer.
Before joining the coaching ranks, Davis had a standout career on the hardwood, both in high school at Wylie High School and then at South Alabama. During her senior season, Davis started all 31 games, averaging 10.2 points per game while leading the team in field-goal percentage (37.7) and free throw percentage (80). She finished second in defensive rebounds (92), steals (38), and assists (82). Davis scored a season-high 20 points twice during the season in games against Troy and Arkansas State. During Davis's junior campaign, she played in all 30 games and started in 27 of them. She was second on the team in points per game and steals with 8.9 and 33, respectively. Davis was lethal from beyond the arc, leading the Sun Belt Conference in 3-point percentage by knocking down 39.7 percent of her shots. A highlight from her season was scoring the game-winning basket against Troy with 1.6 seconds on the clock. Davis competed in 28 games as a sophomore, serving as a catalyst off the bench. She scored double-digits four times and finished third on the team in assists with 43. In a game against Nichols State, she scored 16 points on 5-of-10 shooting while racking up four steals and three steals. Davis played in 19 games as a true freshman, starting eight before an injury caused her season to end. She finished the season averaging 7.5 points per game, 3.6 rebounds per game. Davis earned her first career start against Ole Miss, finishing with 17 points. Before moving to the collegiate ranks, Davis had an accolade-filled high school career. Davis played at Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas, where she lettered all four seasons. She helped lead Wylie to bi-district championships in her junior and senior seasons. Davis was a McDonald's All-American nominee before the start of her senior year. She earned Texas Girls Coach Association All-State honors, TABC All-Region honors, 4A Defensive Player of the Year, Three-time All-District, and was named a Top 50 player in Texas. Â
Davis holds a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science and a master's degree in Sport Management from South Alabama.
