LEADERSHIP P.A.W. JOURNEY STAFF

The P.A.W. Journey staff are committed to serving, educating and challenging our young leaders to win in excellence daily. Establishing a true culture of invitation, each staff member builds individual relationships with our scholar-athletes, using their own personalities, styles and experiences. Collectively, our diverse team supports our students, and each other, day in and day out.

gifts for the WestZone Club at Memorial Stadium. He also served as field director from 1999–2003 for Clemson University’s Call Me MISTER Program.

Davis was an All-American linebacker from 1978–81 and captained the Tigers during their 1981 national championship run. That same season, he became the third defensive player in ACC history to be named league MVP.

A fifth-round draft pick by Tampa Bay in 1982, Davis went on to play six seasons in the NFL. While playing professionally, he also graduated from Clemson in 1984, completing his bachelor’s in industrial education.

In 1995, he became the fourth member of the Clemson Ring of Honor and was named to Clemson’s Centennial Team in 1996. In 2002, he was named to the ACC’s 50-Year Anniversary team. In 2007, Davis was accorded the highest honor attainable for a college player when he was inducted into the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame.

JEFF DAVIS

As part of his 19 years with Clemson’s football program and 23 years with the university, Jeff Davis is in his 14th year as Assistant Athletic Director of Football Player Relations and External Affairs. Davis oversees P.A.W. Journey, the player-relations arm of Clemson Football. A natural outgrowth of his spirit of leadership, Davis founded P.A.W. Journey to cultivate Clemson’s football scholar-athletes into first-class men and worldclass leaders.

During the six years prior to his current position, Davis served as the Assistant Athletic Director for Major Gifts, where he helped fundraise major

In 1999, he returned to Clemson as Field Director of Call Me MISTER, a program that seeks to increase the pool of available teachers from broader, more diverse backgrounds, particularly among South Carolina’s lowest performing elementary schools. In 2001, during his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, he was awarded $100,000 for Call Me MISTER from Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network.

Davis is also an ordained pastor currently leading FreeWay Church of Clemson with his wife, Joni. He and Joni, who he met while attending Clemson, are the proud parents of Jeneé, Jourdan, Judea, Jeuel, Jedidiah (“JD”) and Judah, and the couple is blessed with one grandchild, Doren. All obtained degrees from Clemson, bringing the total of Clemson degrees in the Davis Family to 10. Continuing his legacy in Clemson athletics, Judea, played forward for the Clemson Women’s Soccer Team, and his twin sons, JD and Judah, were also linebackers on Clemson’s 2016 and 2018 national championship teams.

Jeuel Davis

As of April 2022, Jeuel Davis is the newest member of the P.A.W. Journey Staff. Hailing from Tampa, Florida, Jeuel experienced adversity in her transition to Clemson, S.C., which became the catalyst for her passion for education, equity, empowerment and leadership. Thus, she answered the call to educate, and after graduating from Vanderbilt University with her bachelor’s in secondary education and English, she taught English to grades 7–12 in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

With the Jeff Davis Spirit of Leadership being instilled in her as Jeff and Joni’s fourth daughter, Jeuel always embraced the role and responsibility of leadership, which she exhibited as a grade-level and subjectlevel lead at every school at which she taught. She also demonstrated her passion for developing young people holistically through her work as a middle school basketball coach, mentor, FCA adviser and more. After seven years of teaching, Jeuel obtained her Master of Education in Administration and Supervision from Clemson University in 2020 before serving in a school leadership role as the Dean of Instruction for Literacy. After her tenure in Tennessee, Jeuel moved into her role as the Director of Life Skills and Community Service for P.A.W. Journey.

Although Jeuel’s role with P.A.W. Journey just began in 2022, she has been contributing to college football’s premier player-relations program since she was in college. Thus, she has hit the ground running leading P.A.W. Journey’s C.U. in Life pillar, which has included organizing and facilitating civic engagement for Clemson’s football scholar-athletes, spearheading annual P.A.W. Journey initiatives like the Player Symposium, and building relationships with each young man on the team in order to learn how to best support and mentor them. Jeuel gets the most joy from integrating her training and expertise in education, empowerment and leadership into her day-to-day. Whether she is adding Mental Health Moments to the calendar during Fall Camp, emphasizing the establishment and execution of P.A.W. Journey’s curriculum or contributing to P.A.W. Journey defining its vision, mission and values, Jeuel is passionate about the supremely important work that P.A.W. Journey models for the industry of student-athlete development.

Above all else, Jeuel is passionate about her relationship with Christ and walking worthy of her calling in every aspect of her life. In her free time, you can find her spending time with her beloved family, leading FreeWay Church of Clemson’s Praise and Worship Team or advising Rho Zeta, her sorority’s chapter at Clemson.