Mike Davenport is in his second season as MATC head baseball coach. In his first year, Davenport led the team to its first-ever appearance in the NJCAA Division II World Series where the team finished eighth in the nation, compiling an overall record of 43-21. His fourty-three wins ranks as the second-highest season win total by any baseball coach in school history. MATC also claimed the NJCAA Region XIII title, the District title and its fourteenth straight conference title.
Before arriving at MATC, Davenport spent the previous nine seasons as the Head Coach, Athletic Director and Assistant Wellness Center Director at his alma mater, Kishwaukee College, in Malta, Illinois.
Coach Davenport experienced tremendous success while coaching at NJCAA Division II Kishwaukee College from 1995-2004. Under his guidance, his teams recorded a 340-170 record in nine seasons, claiming five conference titles and winning the NJCAA Division II National Championship in 1999. In addition to his teams’ successes, he helped almost ninety Kishwaukee players transfer on to four-year schools. Davenport has coached nine players selected as NJCAA All-Americans and thirty-six players selected in the Major League draft. Of those thirty-six draftees, ten are playing professional baseball and two have played in the Major Leagues.
Davenport, the 1999 NJCAA Division II National Coach-of-the-Year, also serves as a Major League scout for the Chicago White Sox. Over his final six years at Kishwaukee College every one of his recruited players received a scholarship offer to either a NCAA or NAIA institution. His solid relationship with professional scouts and coaches combined with his exceptional teaching skills have allowed him to recruit high quality players from across the Midwest and place those student-athletes in high quality four-year NCAA programs.
Before taking over the Kishwaukee baseball program, Davenport coached at Clarke College. He was an assistant from 1992-1994 before taking over head coaching duties and becoming the Sports Information Director during the 1994-1995 seasons.
Davenport was born and raised in DeKalb, Illinois. In high school, he was a three-sport letterwinner in baseball, basketball and golf. He earned all-conference honors in baseball and basketball his senior season.
Coach Davenport played collegiate baseball at Kishwaukee College in 1989 and 1990 before transferring to Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, to play his final two seasons. While at Kishwaukee he earned academic all-conference honors in both seasons. At Clarke College, Davenport earned academic and athletic first team all-conference honors in baseball. In 1991, he was named to the all-district first team for his play at shortstop. In addition, Davenport was selected team MVP in both his seasons at Clarke College.
In 1992, Davenport graduated from Clarke College with a Business Administration/Sports Management degree. In 2003, he received his Physical Education/Sports Management masters degree from Northern Illinois University.
Davenport currently lives in Madison with his wife Christi and daughter Marli. In addition to coaching, he is an MATC Physical Education faculty member.
