Mike Davenport

Baseball

A member of then Clarke College’s first ever baseball team, Mike Davenport joins the Clarke Athletics Hall of Fame as the seventh baseball player to be inducted.

Transferring to Clarke to play on the 1991 and 1992 baseball teams, Davenport was a two-time MCC All-Conference selection while finishing his career with a .380 batting average, .441 on-base percentage, and a .505 slugging percentage for a .946 OPS.

All of those averages still rank either in or near the top-10 in program history as Davenport also holds a top-10 spot in stolen base percentage at an 86.2 percent success rate, stealing 25 bases in 29 attempts during his career.

Davenport continued to give back to the game of baseball in a coaching role, first at Clarke, taking the head coach position in 1995 while also working as the Sports Information Director for the 1994-95 school year.

Graduating from Clarke with his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Sports Management, Davenport continued his coaching career as Kishwaukee College from 1995 to 2004 before moving to his current post as the head coach at Madison College from 2004 on as he also works with USA Baseball.

Davenport hopes the Clarke Community will remember that he was a invested student-athlete for the first ever Clarke baseball team, a hard worker and good teammate.