Zach Davis
Sports Journalist. Writer. Broadcaster.
I’m a sports journalist and broadcaster with a focus on college athletics, covering everything from the Texas Longhorns to high school sports across central Texas. My work lives at the intersection of sharp reporting and live storytelling — whether that’s a column built around ESPN’s Joe Lunardi or a play-by-play call on a Friday night under the lights. My goal is to build a career in sports media that spans both in the press box and up in the booth.
My Work
Writing
I cover college athletics with a focus on the Texas Longhorns, breaking down the stories behind the games through sharp reporting and column work.
Broadcasting
I call live sports on the air, with play-by-play experience spanning both college and high school football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball and soccer across Central Texas.
Studio Work
I bring the same storytelling instincts from the press box into the studio, delivering analysis and commentary in a television setting.
About me
I’m Zach Davis, a sports journalist and broadcaster finishing my B.S. in Journalism with a minor in Sports Media at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the past four years, I've built my career one beat, one broadcast and one byline at a time — across print, radio, television, and digital media.
My writing home has been The Daily Texan, where I've grown from a general sports reporter into a senior reporter, sports desk editor and columnist. I've covered Texas football, women's basketball, softball, men's golf and men's basketball — developing a voice that goes beyond the box score and into the story underneath it. Some of my proudest work came on the women's basketball beat, where I profiled Blair Schaefer in a sit-down that stretched close to an hour, and on the column desk, where I got to write freely about the 2026 Texas basketball tournament run — one of the best pieces I've put my name on.
On the broadcast side, I've logged reps across every format. At KVRX, UT's student radio station, I developed my on-air presence and learned how to fill dead air with something worth hearing. At TSTV, I stepped in front of the camera and into the studio, sharpening the skills that live at the intersection of television production and sports storytelling. At Dave Campbell's Texan Live, I've called more than 50 live high school football, basketball and baseball events — managing my own prep, equipment, and travel independently for broadcasts that sometimes run five hours from start to finish.
The project I'm most proud of is the Burnt Orange Sports Network, which I founded from scratch in October 2024. BOSN became UT's first student-run play-by-play broadcasting organization — a 20-person operation that generated over 150,000 views across social media and gave Texas students real, hands-on broadcast experience. I became the first UT student in over 20 years to deliver live play-by-play for Texas Football from inside the stadium.
In fall 2025, I took my first professional step when I interned at Sports Illustrated, where I fact-checked and authored roughly 100 stories published across SI's print and digital platforms — including SI FC, SI Kids, SI Breaking News, and the main magazine. I traveled to Dallas to cover the Cowboys-Packers tie at AT&T Stadium for my first SI feature, reporting from the parking lot to the final whistle.
Every role has sharpened a different edge. Together, they've built a journalist who can report, write, broadcast, produce and lead — and who is just getting started.
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My Resume
