COACHES

StEVE DAVENPORT

HEAD FOOTBALL COACH

Coach Davenport is entering his fourth season as Head Coach at South Gwinnett. Coach Davenport has guided the Comets to back to back playoff appearances entering the 2019 season. Davenport was hired as a defensive backs coach at Southwest DeKalb High School (1990–91). He served as a graduate assistant coach at Georgia Tech during the 1992 and 1993 seasons under head coach Bill Lewis. During this assignment he was an assistant wide receivers coach, served as the assistant recruiting coordinator, and was responsible for the defensive scout team during practices.
He returned to Southwest DeKalb to become the offensive coordinator in 1994, a position he held until 1996. During this tenure, the Panthers won the 1995 Georgia State AAAAA championship. In 1997 Davenport was hired as the head football coach at Redan High School in Lithonia, Georgia where he spent four seasons (1997–2001).
He was the head coach at Decatur High School for two seasons (2003–04) and was named the Georgia Class AA State Coach-of-the-Year in 2003 as the Bulldogs finished 13-1, losing in the state semifinals.
When he became the offensive coordinator at Rockdale County High School in Conyers, Georgia in 2005, he joined a staff that previously went 1-9 in 2004. The team finished the 2005 season and finished as the runner-up in Region 8-AAAA, advancing into the second round of the state playoffs.
Before becoming the head coach at Savannah State Davenport served at the University of Alabama-Birmingham as the running back coach and as the university's Director of Community Relations. Prior to coming to South Gwinnett, Davenport served as the Head Coach at Woodland (Stockbridge) High School.