Michael Davis (basketball player)

Michael Gregory Davis (born July 17, 1970 in Kingsport, Tennessee) is a former Division I basketball player who played for the Virginia Tech Hokies, from 1991 to 1994.

Professional career

Davis began training athletes and counseling adults on health and fitness in 1996. He became a Registered Dietitian in 1996 and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist in 1998.

Coaching career

Davis was hired by U-TURN, Inc. in early 1998 and founded the basketball training and sport science programs at the U-TURN Sports Performance Academy. He was given directorship of both programs. After three years of developing the programs, Davis relinquished directorship of sport science to focus on the basketball program. It was shortly thereafter that he founded the U-TURN Warriors AAU basketball program. It started small with only 3 teams and by 2007 it had grown to 17 teams consisting of 9 girls teams and 8 boys teams. In August 2006, Davis was hired as the head coach and player development coordinator of the American Basketball Association's Richmond Ballerz. The team folded in February 2007. In early May 2007, Davis left U-TURN, Inc. and founded two new companies, TPLS, Inc. (a non-profit youth basketball ministry) and Three Point Line Sports, Inc. a for-profit professional basketball training program. He continued building on the success he had at U-TURN and started a new AAU program called Team TPLS. It began with one team in 2007 and grew to 8 teams As of 2009. The program had tremendous success early, producing 6 national qualifiers in only the second year of existence. In June 2009, Davis left the ministry he founded to become the lead assistant coach with the Longwood University Women's Basketball Program.