Sacramento State

Following her career in the green and gold, former Hornet goalkeeper Danielle Davis joined the Sacramento State women's soccer coaching staff prior to the 2022 season -- her first foray into coaching -- as a volunteer assistant and enters her fourth season on the sidelines in 2025 after being elevated to a full-time assistant coach prior to the 2024 campaign.

Davis was tasked with helping train the Sacramento State goalkeeping corps upon joining the staff in 2022 while also serving as the program's camp director. In her first year, she helped mentor keeper Mia Shalit, who finished with 94 saves — the most for a Hornet netminder since 2019 — and finished the year ranked atop the Big Sky Conference statistical standings in over stops while standing second in saves per game (5.22).

In 2023, Davis helped guide redshirt freshman Izzy Palmatier to All-Big Sky honorable mention honors while finishing third in the conference with 4.87 saves per game.

After helping the Hornets to a Big Sky Conference Tournament title and NCAA berth in 2024, two of Davis' charges were honored with postseason awards as Palmatier, who led the Big Sky in total saves with 107 (good for third on the school's single-season list), was named to the league's all-tournament team and Sierra Sonko was named the tournament MVP -- only the third student-athlete in school history to do so -- after stopping six of 18 penalty kick attempts against Northern Arizona, Montana, and Idaho to help the Hornets claim the crown.

Davis, who was a member of the Sacramento State roster for three seasons from 2019-21 after transferring from Diablo Valley College. She finished with 21 career wins and eight shutouts in her two seasons at Diablo Valley, earning Big 8 Conference Defensive MVP honors as a sophomore in 2018-19, while leading the league with 116 saves.

The Antioch, Calif., native prepped at Deer Valley HS, where she was Bay Valley Athletic League MVP and earned all-conference first team honors as a senior, and played club for the Delta Arsenal for four seasons.