In 2015, Godwin was listed as an area scout, based in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
[1] Godwin was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and attended Northern Nash High School.
Godwin's first head coaching stint came at Enfield Academy, a private school in Nash County, North Carolina.
During this time Enfield Academy baseball team had five consecutive conference championships, four straight Final Four appearances and a state title in 1994.
After taking the helm at Louisburg College in the fall of 1999, Godwin kept the Hurricanes in the national spotlight by averaging 43 wins per season.
The Hurricanes finished with a school-record 51–11 mark in 2002 and made their tenth trip to the College World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado.
On August 8, 2019, Godwin was named the head baseball coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
[3] On December 19, 2023, Godwin announced he was stepping down from his position at UNCG to rejoin the New York Yankees in a scouting role.