Aside from not being on the Clemson campus for the Tigers’ fight toward a national championship in football, Shelbie Davenport has liked everything about her transfer from the South Carolina school to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
The 6-foot guard has had all sorts of transitions in what is her redshirt season with the Mocs. The Murfreesboro native spent a year with the Clemson women’s program.
With a dearth of players at the point guard position, UTC coach Jim Foster moved Davenport there to aid in practice. The Mocs lost point guards Chelsey Shumpert and Molly Melton to season-ending injuries, so there was a need for somebody to step in, and Foster basically gave Davenport no alternative.
“He just said, ‘You’re playing point,'” Davenport said.
It has been a learning curve for the sophomore, who has had to go from playing off the ball to being guarded on a daily basis by 2015 Southern Conference defensive player of the year Alicia Payne.