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Dee Davis
Class of 2005
Dee Davis (Wheeling Park High School, Class of 1981). The first OVAC girls’ athlete to earn first team All-W. Va. honors three times set Ohio Valley and state scoring records which remain on the books after a quarter of a century. Overall, she set three OV and three W. Va. scoring standards.A three-year Wheeling Park standout, she scored a school record 1,854 points including 716 for a 32.5 average as a senior. She was named state 'Player of the Year' and captain of the Class AAAall-state team for the 1980 season.
She scored a school-record 55 points vs. Weirton Madonna and set a state tournament Class AAAscoring record which remains on the books after 27 years. She tallied 43 points vs. Greenbrier East as a sophomore in 1978. In two state tournament games that year, she scored 76 points including 13 of 14 free throws.
Davis led Park to a state Class AAA runner-up spot as a senior when she also charted 104 steals, 71 assists and 87 rebounds. After the season, she was MVP in the state North-South game where she scored 30 points. She earned All-America mention in Street & Smith's and Converse magazines.
At Park, Davis also starred as a pitcher-shortstop on the first varsity softball teams and earned all-state recognition from the W. Va. Coaches Association.
She signed a basketball scholarship to Tennessee Tech where she played for two seasons before finishing her college career at West Virginia University. In her two seasons with the Mountaineers, she served as team co-captain in 1986 with Georgeann Wells, the first woman to dunk in a college basketball game. In Davis' junior season, WVU recorded its second-ever 20-win season with a 20-10 mark.
She also played basketball with a U.S. All-Star team in England and scored 150 points for a 21.4 average. Davis has completed her 13th year as head girls’ basketball coach at her alma mater Park. She has guided the Patriots into six state tournaments and won back-to-back Class AAAchampionships in 1998-99 and became the first female to win the all-sports 'OVAC Coach of the Year' award. The Wheeling resident also coaches softball.