Bio

Jim Davidson was named the 9^th women’s basketball head coach in Calumet College of St. Joseph history on October 2, 2023.

Davidson joins the Crimson Wave after his most recent role as a teacher of Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a pre-engineering curriculum at Munster High School.

Prior to that, Davidson had an extensive coaching career that dates back 34 years to his first coaching opportunity with Highland High School in 1989.

Over that 34-year span, Davidson coached girls’ basketball, boys’ basketball, girls golf, softball and baseball, from as young as the 5^th grade level to as old as the varsity high school level.

Within his coaching tenure at Munster High School that spanned from 1992 to 2009 and 2014 to 2021, Davidson spent time as the varsity girls’ basketball head coach for two years, the assistant coach for three years and the JV girls’ basketball head coach for one year. He helped Munster win a sectional title the 2019-20 season and was a 2x Northwest Crossroads Conference winner and coach of the year.

Davidson was also the Munster varsity softball head coach for seven years and the varsity girls golf head coach for nine years. Throughout that time frame, he led the Munster softball team to two sectional championships, four conference championships and was recognized four times as conference coach of the year. In girls’ golf, Davidson helped the team notch five conference championships, along with 4x regional team qualifiers. He was recognized on five separate occasions as the conference coach of the year and holds the record for the most varsity girls basketball coaching wins in Munster history.

Before Munster, Davidson spent three years at Highland High School where he coached 6^th grade boys’ basketball, 8^th grade girls’ basketball, freshman girls’ basketball and JV baseball.

As an athlete himself, Davidson played baseball at Purdue University from August 1984 to December 1985. At Princeton Community High School, Davidson was a four-year letter winner in tennis, a three-year letter winner in baseball and a two-year letter winner in basketball. He was also a starting guard on the Princeton 1983 state finalist basketball team.