San Diego State alum Trimaine Davis filled his role as an honorary captain, appearing on the field at the Super Bowl for the coin toss prior to kickoff in Tampa on Sunday.
He was joined at Raymond James Stadium by the game’s two other honorary captains, nurse manager Suzie Dornier of Tampa and Marine Corps veteran James Martin of Pittsburgh.
Dornier did the honors for the coin toss, won by the Kansas City Chiefs as they prepared to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay went on to defeat Kansas City, 31-9.
The trio appeared briefly, after a video introduction and while Amanda Gorman, the poet who performed at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, recited a new work honoring them.
She said of Davis:
Trimaine is an educator who works nonstop.
Providing his community with hotspots
Laptops and tech workshops
So his students have all the tools
They need to succeed in life and in school.
Before Sunday, Davis said he was pleased “just to showcase that all three of us, myself, James and Suzie, share this common bond of service and stewardship.”
Davis, a retention coordinator for the VIP Scholars program at UCLA, played basketball from 2003-06 for the Aztecs and and was a team captain on the 2005-06 squad.
He earned a degree in African American Studies in 2006 from SDSU.
Updated 7:45 p.m. Feb. 7, 2021
