Notable:

• State Player of the Year, 2009

• 1,912 career high school points

• More than 1,000 rebounds

• Middletown's Most Valuable Player all four years she played

• First Team All-State, sophomore through senior years, 2007 - 2009

• McDonalds All-American Nominee, 2009

• 2000 - 2009 All-Decade, First Team (Delaware's Finest, Inc.)

• 2000 - 2009 All-Decade, Second Team (DGB.com Visitors' Poll)

Additional:

For those lucky enough to have witnessed Chelsea Davis play basketball, it is difficult to imagine a better girls post player (besides Elena Delle Donne) in Delaware in the modern era.  Her point total ranks her 5th on the state's all-time leader board at the date of her induction.  Assuming 24 games per season for four seasons (96 games), Davis had to have averaged 19.9 ppg all four years to accumulate her total.  Her junior and senior years were, of course, dominant.  As a junior, she averaged 21.4 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game on her way to leading the team in points, rebounds, steals and blocks per game.  She averaged 22.2 points and 13.5 rebounds per game as a senior.

The mark of a true great is that they come up big in big games.  In the State Semi-Finals in 2009 vs. Ursuline, she scored 31 points to lead all scorers.  A couple of nights later, she returned to The Bob and laid down another 30 points in a losing effort to Delcastle.  Sixty-one points in the two biggest games of her high school career.

What Others Say About Chelsea:

“What always impressed me most about Chelsea was besides the fact that she was one of the most dominant high school players I've ever watched, she had a great work ethic and attitude.  Every time I watched she was double or triple teamed and would get fouled non-stop, but she never lost her cool, she just played right through it.  She never got mad at her teammates as you sometimes see star players do;  her and her teammates always appeared to be having fun together on the court.  I know with her skills and her intangibles she will continue to be more and more successful at FSU every year.” 

Dan Pisani, Head Coach, Appoquinimink High School

 

 

"We couldn't be happier to have Chelsea join our Seminole family.  She has a strong skill set that compliments our current team. Not only does she have great physical tools, but a work ethic and drive that will continue to help build our program into a national power. She has a strong foundation through the support of her family and coaches. That foundation will be the springboard for her to accomplish great things at the next level."

Sue Semrau, Head Coach, Florida State University

 

Chelsea Davis could be a one-girl wrecking crew when she had to be, like she was in the 2009 State Title Game vs. Delcastle.

 

Urging her teammates on from the bench.

 

In the Semi-Finals vs. Ursuline.

 

Receiving an individual award at the Diamond State Classic in December 2008.

 

The original caption to this photo still stands today:

I was watching Chelsea Davis in warm-ups going through her post moves and just had to capture the moment.  It's this kind of work ethic that has gotten her to the top of the girls basketball scene in Delaware.

 

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