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2023 Softball Roster

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20 Danielle Davis

  • Position Outfielder
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Missouri City, Texas
  • High School Fort Bend Elkins
  • Instagram daniellee.daviss
  • Twitter DaniiiDaviss

Biography

Graduation Badge University of Illinois Graduate

Redshirt Senior - 2023

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Appeared in 48 games, making 26 starts
  • Tallied 18 hits and 11 runs
  • Logged 10 extra-base hits including five home runs, which tied for second on the team
  • Slashed .209/.442/.320
  • Recorded 23 RBI and nine walks
  • Posted a pair of hits against Valparaiso (3/15/23)
  • Scored a pair of runs against Southern (2/10/23)
  • Recorded five RBI against Wisconsin (5/10/23)
  • Went 1-for-1 in stolen bases on the season recording it against Sam Houston (2/24/23)
  • Tallied her third collegiate grand slam during the Illini’s Big Ten Tournament opener against Wisconsin (5/10/23)
  • Posted a 1.000 fielding percentage with 14 putouts and no assists or errors.

Redshirt Junior - 2022

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Appeared in 52 games for the Illini, starting 36 in the outfield
  • Tallied 33 hits and eight doubles on the season, racking up 16 RBI
  • Slashed .311/.422/.453 across the season
  • Drew 16 walks and five hit by pitches
  • Stole four bases
  • Owned a .964 fielding percentage with 27 putouts
  • Six multi-hit games including three-hit efforts against Clemson and Mercer
  • Four multi-RBI performances
  • Season-best five game hitting streak and six game reached base streak
  • Hit first-career triple at Louisville (3/4/22)
  • Connected for a home run in the Illini's win at Illinois State

Junior - 2021

  • Did not play due to injury 

Sophomore - 2020

  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Started all 22 games for the Illini, seeing action in the outfield 
  • .254 BA, 15 H, 3 HR, 3 2B, 7 R, 27 TB, .458 slugging percentage, 3 BB, 2 SB
  • Ranked tied for 10th in the Big Ten and led the Illini with 15 RBI
  • Two of her three home runs went for grand slams
  • Had two hits and four RBI against Baylor (2/23/20)
  • Tallied her second career grand-slam in a 5 RBI-performance against NC State (2/16/20)
  • Knocked her first career home run with a grand slam in the opening game of the season vs. Liberty (2/7/20)

Freshman - 2019

  • Saw action in 14 games for the Orange and Blue
  • Scored 5 runs
  • Made her first Illini appearance and scored her first collegiate run in a win over No. 22 Oklahoma State (2/8/19)
  • Had her first career at-bat in a win over Nicholls State (2/23/19)

High School

  • Two-time District 23-5A All-District First-Team as a sophomore and junior
  • District 23-5A All-District Honorable Mention as a freshman
  • Three-time District 23-5A All-District Academic First-Team
  • 2015 Academic All-State
  • Plays for Impact Gold National club team
  • Helped lead her Impact Gold U16 club team to a fourth place finish at the ASA National Championship in Clearwater, Fla., and a fifth place finish at the USSSA Nationals in Kansas City, Mo.
  • Led her Impact Gold U18 club team to the Lone Star Fall Classic championship
  • National Honor Society and National Society of High School Scholars member in 2016
  • Named to the 2017 Rho Kappa National Social Studies Honor Society

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 20

    2019Freshman

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    20
  • 20

    2020Sophomore

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    20
  • 20

    2021Junior

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    20
  • 20

    2022Redshirt Junior

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    20
  • 20

    2023Redshirt Senior

    Outfielder
    5'7"
    20