Head Tennis Coach

Loke Davis
Meyer Tennis Courts
510.430.3257
tennis@mills.edu

The 2011–2012 season marked Coach Davis’ first year as Head Tennis Coach at Mills College. Coach Davis brings with her an intimate knowledge of Mills Athletics’ recent history and a commitment to the growth and success of the student-athletes it serves. Coach Davis served as the Interim Head Tennis Coach during the 2010–2011 season. She began working with the Mills tennis team as the assistant coach in Spring 2010. Her position of the assistant coach was preceded by her stint as a Mills volleyball volunteer assistant coach in Fall 2009.

Loke Davis has been recognized by the United States Tennis Association, Northern California section as the 2011 recipient of its Diversity ACES Leadership Award. Davis was honored for her superior coaching, mentoring and serving as a role model to others through her work in the field of tennis, and in so doing, encouraging others to play.

Prior to her work as a coach with Mills College Athletics, Davis was a Cyclone student-athlete. She began her career in 2005 as a freshwoman on both the Cyclone tennis and volleyball teams. She continued to play volleyball for four years and tennis for two years as an undergraduate, earning numerous departmental awards including the Heart and Soul of the Cyclone Spirit Award, the Myrt Whitcomb Leadership Award, the Golden M Award, the Cyclone Award, and the MOCA (Mills Women of Color Award) for athletics.

At the national level, Davis was recognized as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar Athlete and NAIA Academic All-American. In Volleyball, she was awarded an All-Independent Women’s Volleyball Honorable Mention and was selected to the Cal-Pac All-Conference Second Team.