Tania Davis joined the Detroit Mercy women’s basketball staff as an Assistant Coach in September 2025.
Before joining the Titans, Davis spent two years as an Assistant Coach and Director of Player Development at Iowa, where she was instrumental in the Hawkeyes’ run to the 2024 NCAA Final Four and National Title game appearance and was named to the 2025 Thirty Under 30 List by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She assisted the staff in the day-to-day activities and helped develop student-athletes into strong leaders and role models in the Iowa City community. She also coached for the Michigan Crossover AAU program in the summer of 2025.
Prior to her time at Iowa, Davis was an assistant coach for Omaha women’s basketball from 2021 to 2023. During her time with the Mavericks, the program won 22 games and advanced to the Summit League Championship in 2022-23.
Davis had a two-year stint as a women’s basketball Graduate Assistant at Clemson, where she oversaw the team managers, assisting with individual workout plans, recruit visits, and film breakdown. Davis earned a Master’s Degree in Athletic Leadership from Clemson in 2021 and a Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Human Psychology from Iowa in 2019.
Davis was a four-year standout student athlete for the Iowa women’s basketball team (2015-2019):
• She was tabbed an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention in 2019 and named to the 2016 Big Ten All-Freshman Team
• As a senior, Davis helped lead the Hawkeyes to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and became the 36th Hawkeye to reach 1,000 career points, ending her career with 1,007 points.
• She scored double figures in 18 games and notched new career single-season highs in points, rebounds, assists, field goals made, and 3-point field goals made.
• Davis finished the year with 162 assists, which ranked second on the team.
• During her junior campaign in 2017-18, Davis made 12 starts, scoring in double figures seven times while averaging 9.7 points, 5.2 assists, and 3.2 rebounds per game. She shot over 41 percent from 3-point range, finishing the season with 21 triples.
• Davis started 23 contests before tearing her ACL as a sophomore in 2016-17. She scored double-digits in 14 games and led the team in free-throw percentage.
• In her debut season, Davis logged minutes in every game with 16 starts, leading the Hawkeyes with 111 assists, which ranks second in program history for a freshman.
Davis, a native of Flint, Mich., was also a four-year standout for Goodrich High School, earning Michigan Miss Basketball by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan and the Detroit Free Press in 2015. She led the squad to back-to-back Class B state titles as a freshman and sophomore (2012, 2013), regional finals as a junior (2014), and semifinals as a senior (2015). Davis finished her career as Goodrich’s all-time leading scorer and assists leader, helping the team to a 100-8 record, which included an undefeated record against Genesee Area Conference Red Division opponents, four conference championships, four district titles, and three regional championships.
