Davenport earns All-America honors

OVERLAND PARK, KS -- Johnson County Community College sophomore center Katy Davenport was one of 30 players to earn selection as a 2006-07 NJCAA Division II Basketball All-American.  Davenport was named to the first-team.  Her honor marks the 14th time a JCCC players has earned All-America honors, and just the fifth player to earn first-team honors.  Davenport earned third-team All-American as a freshman.  She is just the second player in team history to be honored as an All-American in both her freshman and sophomore campaigns.  Davenport is also a candidate to earn NJCAA Academic All-American accolades at the end of the spring semester.

This season, Davenport led JCCC in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots. She scored 654 points, an average of 19.8 per game.  That total ranks fifth on JCCC’s season chart.  Her 19.8 per game average ranked eighth in the country.  She also had 261 rebounds, an average of 7.9, and blocked 25 shots.  Her 261 rebounds tie the 14th-best season in team history.  She also hit .763 from the free throw line, which ranked her 45th nationally.  This season, JCCC finished the regular season with 21 wins, the most since the 1991-92 season.  They added two more in postseason, finishing the year 23-10.  The record for most wins in a season is 25.

Davenport, a graduate of Manhattan (Kan.) High School, ends her career at JCCC ranked among the all-time career leaders in several categories.  Most notably, Davenport moved into the No. 2 spot all-time in scoring with 1,293 points.  She is just the third player in team history to score over 1,000 points in a career, joining former All-Americans Lisa Kirby and Tonya Baucom in JCCC’s 1,000-point club.  Her 19.0 career points per game average is fourth-best in team history.

She also ranks second in career point field goals with 494, first in career free throws with 266, third in career free throw percentage at .762, nine in career rebounds with 476, and tied for 10th in career 3-point field goal percentage at .345.

In her two seasons, Davenport helped JCCC to back-to-back 20-win seasons, two Region VI D-II championships, a District title and a seventh-place finish in the National Tournament.  In addition to her All-America honors, Davenport was also twice selected as an East Jayhawk Conference and Region VI performer, and was named to the NJCAA All-Tournament team her freshman year.  Last summer, Davenport was also selected to play in the inaugural NJCAA Women’s All-Star Games in Lubbock, Texas.