2009 Fever Player Bio Pages (pdf)
Signed by the Fever as a free agent four games into the regular season after being waived by the New York Liberty. She is the first Ohio State player ever to don a Fever uniform, and she joins Katie Douglas as former players of the year in the Big Ten Conference.
PRO - WNBA
2008: After missing the first 19 games due to a tibial stress fracture she suffered while playing in France, Davenport saw action in 14 of the Liberty's final 15 games…she claimed a total of 10 rebounds in her first 10 appearances, all of which she made as a reserve…she started three straight games late in the season from Sept. 9 to 12 and played exceptionally well…in those three games, she scored more points and collected more rebounds than she had in her previous 10 outings, combined…she scored 10+ points in each of those three starts, doing so in three straight games for the first time in her career…she tied a career-high with 15 points vs. San Antonio, 9/9…in that game against the Silver Stars, she added nine rebounds and two assists…in New York's next game, she led the Liberty with 12 points and six rebounds in a 74-59 loss to the Fever, 9/11…her six rebounds against the Fever included a career-high four offensive rebounds…she led the Liberty to its final win of 2008 with the first double-double of her brief career, scoring 10 points and grabbing a career-best 10 rebounds in a 69-62 win over Chicago, 9/12…she returned to the bench for the Liberty's final game of 2008, scoring two points and claiming five rebounds with a blocked shot in a two-point loss (61-59) vs. Detroit…in her first 10 games, she totaled 32 points and 10 rebounds.
2007: The second overall pick in the 2007 WNBA Draft by San Antonio, her rights were acquired on the night of the draft, along with the Silver Stars' 2008 first round draft pick, by New York in exchange for Becky Hammon and the Liberty's 2007 second round draft pick…as a rookie, she played in 33 of 34 games and started 13…she averaged 5.3 ppg and 2.7 rpg…she shot 81.8 percent from the foul line (54-of-66), ranking second on the team and 22nd in the WNBA…she was third among all WNBA rookies that had at least 40 attempts from the foul line…having shot 61-of-137 from the floor (.445), she led all WNBA rookies in field goal percentage…she led all rookies in blocked shots with 29 and ranked 16th in the WNBA with an average of 0.88 bpg…in the first six games of her career, she had at least one blocked shot in each and averaged 2.17 bpg…in just the third game of her career, she rejected a career-high four shots at Minnesota, 6/1, which tied the most blocks by any New York player during the season…she scored a career-high 15 points vs. Phoenix, 6/3, and scored 10+ points a total of five times.
PLAYOFFS
2008: She played in four of the Liberty's six postseason games, scoring 10 points with five rebounds, a steal and a blocked shot in 25 minutes…in New York's two-point loss in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, 9/28, she scored a postseason career-high five points.
2007: She played in two games of a three-game series with Detroit, scoring three points and adding three boards…all three of her rebounds came in the opening game of the series, 8/24.
PRO – OVERSEAS
2008-09: A member of the Turkish League's All-Defensive unit, she averaged a league-leading 1.7 bpg for Tarsus Belediyesi…in 18 Turkish League appearances, she also averaged 12.7 ppg and 9.0 rpg, which ranked seventh in the league and was second on the team.
2007-08: Playing professionally overseas for the first time, she averaged 15.8 ppg in 25 games for Challes-les-Eaux Basket in France…she ranked second in the LFB with an average of 16.1 ppg in 17 appearances…she was also second in the LFB in blocked shots with an average of 1.1 bpg…in eight Eurocup games, she averaged 15.1 ppg, 9.1 rpg and 1.5 spg.
COLLEGE
Ohio State's first three-time WBCA/Kodak and Associated Press All-American, she was also the Big Ten's first three-time Player of the Year...a three-time finalist for Wade Trophy and two-time finalist for Wooden Award, she was named the 2006 Ohio State Athlete of the Year...With USA Basketball, she helped the U.S. junior team win the World University Games in 2006 and was a member of the U.S. Senior National Team that won gold at the 2006 Opals World Challenge in Australia...she is the only player in Big Ten history to record 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 300 blocked shots in a career...she played in a school-record 130 games...she was only the second Buckeye to register more than 2,300 career points, finishing with 2,303 career points, which rates fifth all-time in Big Ten history...she is second in school history behind Katie Smith, who tallied 2,578 points...she tied Courtney Coleman (2000-03) for the top Ohio State career field goal percentage at .604 (875-of-1448), and she graduated as the school’s career leader with 875 FGM...she scored in double digits in 83 of her last 84 games...she recorded a total of 384 blocks and ended her Buckeye run as the Big Ten's all-time leader, ranking seventh in NCAA history...her career rebound total of 1,093 rates second in OSU history.
