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25-Year Award
Presented to College Sports Communicators members who have completed 25 years in the athletics communications profession. Vetted and voted on by the Special Awards Committee. 

Natalie Davis – Copiah-Lincoln Community College Director of Sports Information

One of the "deans" of athletic communications in the state of Mississippi with over two decades of work in the sports information field, Natalie Davis will receive a 25-Year Award from CSC as she becomes the first female from a two-year college to receive this honor. She also is the 11th female to earn a CSC 25-Year Award in the last seven years.

Davis is one of two SIDs (with sports information coordinator Kevin Kyzar) at Copiah-Lincoln Community College, located in Wesson, Mississippi, a small town of 2,000 located 50 minutes south of Jackson, Mississippi. Copiah-Lincoln sponsors 12 sports and is a member of the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges (MACJC), one of the two conferences that make up the NJCAA's Region XXIII.

Davis is a past president of the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi (CPRAM), a member of the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR), Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition, and is a past member of the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. She has earned numerous awards from the Mississippi Press Association, College Public Relations Association of Mississippi, and the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations. She also has received the Eta Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa's Faculty Scholar Award, Co-Lin's High Performance Award.

Career reflections from Natalie Davis, 25-Year Award recipient – "For the majority of my 25-year career, I have been the only female sports information director out of the 15 community colleges in Mississippi. Reaching this career milestone is significant, especially among junior colleges. I work with some of the most awesome coaches, faculty and staff members. It's definitely the people who make Co-Lin a special place."
   
Copiah-Lincoln head football coach, Glenn Davis – "Natalie has been a great supporter of Co-Lin football during the 20 years that I have been Co-Lin's head football coach. She has been our go to person to get things done. We are very thankful to have her here at Co-Lin."

NATALIE DAVIS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER TIPS

• Try and learn everything you can about the different aspects of athletic communications. 

• The most important advice I can give someone new is to find time for yourself and your family as the field of athletic communications is a very demanding job with odd hours. Whether it's attending a yoga class, turning your phone off and eating a meal with your family or watching a movie, you need to get away from the job for a short time.