| Title: | Associate AD/External Relations |
| Phone: | 978-837-5364 |
| Email: | davisb@merrimack.edu |
Brad Davis enters his sixth year at Merrimack College and his first as the Associate Athletic Director for External Relations.
Davis is part of a management team that works collaboratively to manage the operation of Merrimack’s 23 Division II programs as well as its Division I hockey team. Core responsibilities include managing all aspects of external relations such as marketing and promotions, corporate sponsorship, fundraising, imaging, event management, ticketing, the athletics website, media relations, social media and sports information. Additionally, Davis directs all television broadcasts, webcasts, and video productions on the Merrimack Sports Network.
In 2011-12, Davis created the Merrimack Sports Network, which broadcast eight games locally on WBIN-TV and five games nationally on Fox College Sports, including all three of Merrimack's Hockey East quarterfinal games at Maine. Davis also oversaw the creation and production of Merrimack All-Access, an inside look at the Merrimack hockey program that aired locally and nationally.
As a member of the department's senior staff, Davis serves as the sport supervisor for softball, tennis, volleyball and swimming.
Fueled by a school record 15 sellouts in 17 home hockey games at Lawler Arena in 2011-12, Merrimack doubled its sponsorship efforts, raising over $150,000.
Davis served as the media contact for the 2010-11 hockey team, which set a school record for wins in the Division I era and appeared live on television seven times, including twice at Lawler Arena for the first time since 2005. Merrimack's media coverage created over $1 million in free publicity in 2010-11, while the web traffic numbers doubled in a six-month span (September, 2010 to March, 2011).
Davis oversaw website redesigns in 2008 and 2011 and the Buy-A-Seat program in Lawler Arena, which raised over $125,000 through donations.
Prior to Merrimack, Davis worked at Bryant University where he served as the Assistant Director of Sports Communications for 13 months. He was the chief contact for men's and women's soccer, field hockey, women's basketball, and baseball and assisted with men's basketball, football, tennis, golf, track and field, cross country and softball. He was the executive producer of the weekly Comfort Suites Coaches Show and founded the Bryant Production Group which webcast all football and basketball games, as well as other selected events.
Davis graduated from Boston University in May of 2006 with a
degree in broadcast journalism.
Prior to Bryant University, Davis covered high school sports for
the Metro West Daily News in Framingham, MA.
A San Francisco, CA native and CoSIDA member, he also spent time
interning with KGO ABC-7 Sports in San Francisco and in the media
relations department for the NHL's San Jose Sharks.
Davis resides in Medford, Massachusetts with his fiancé
Kristin and their dog Kipper and is pursuing his Masters in Sports
Management from Southern New Hampshire University.







































