Hall of Fame
Meredith Davies Long has become a fixture on the campus of Chowan University. Long came to Chowan in the fall of 1992 as a two-sport athlete from Currituck, North Carolina. Still playing under junior college status in 1992, Long earned all NJCAA Region X honors in basketball after averaging 15 points and 7 rebounds per game. After two seasons playing both basketball and softball, Long decided to concentrate on softball. Long played under Coach Jack Goldberg during her softball tenure, the most successful four years that the program has experienced. In four years the centerfielder helped the program compile a 107-47 overall record. In 1995 she helped the team to a program-high 36 wins, a mark that still stands today. Long left Chowan as one of the program’s most decorated players, compiling a .413 career batting average and a .976 career fielding percentage. She still holds records for runs scored in a single season, season and career fielding percentages, career batting average, and assists as an outfielder.
After graduation from Chowan, Long accepted a teaching position at Willis Hare Elementary in nearby Northampton County where she spent three years. During that time she wrote and implemented over $20,000 in grants. In the spring of 1999, she was named the school’s teacher of the year. Long made her way back to Chowan in 1999 after accepting the head softball coach position. In 2001, she took over the Sports Information Director’s position and in 2004 she was named the department’s Senior Woman Administrator. She resigned her position as head softball coach after seven seasons to take on more administrative functions as the School's Sports Information Director and Senior Woman Administrator as the school transitioned to NCAA DII status.
Currently, Long is the Deputy Athletics Director/Senior Woman Administrator and  can be seen on just about every sideline overseeing the school’s sports. She oversees the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee on campus and helped initiate the NCAA's CHAMPS/Life Skills program in its first year (2009). Long also has sport oversight in bowling, men’s and women’s cross country, volleyball, softball, and men’s and women’s tennis.
Long received her B.S. in Physical Education from Chowan in 1996 and her M.S. in Sport Management from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002.
Long is a member of CoSIDA, NCSSIA, CIAA-SIDA, CIAA-SWAA, BC-SIDA, Women's Sport Foundation, and NACWAA. She is a graduate of the NCAA/NACWAA Institute for Administrative Advancement. In May of 2010 she was named the CIAA's SWA of the Year. She was recently named Chowan University's Female Employee of the Year. Long was one of twenty candidates nationwide chosen for the newly formed NCAA/ADA DII Mentorship program in July of 2011.
Meredith Davies Long is married to Mark Long, a 1997 graduate of Chowan and together they have two daughters, Dakota and Dallas. They reside in Murfreesboro.
