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Winthrop "Wink" Davenport (born April 12, 1942) is an American former volleyball player, and the father of tennis champion Lindsay Davenport. He grew up in Binghamton, New York.[1][2] He was part of the USA Pan Am volleyball squad that won a gold medal in 1967 and played on the 1968 Olympicvolleyball team for United States, and finished seventh with the team in Mexico City.[3] In 1969, he was a member of the USA World Cup squad, and later captained the U.S. national championship club team while earning All-America honors in 1971.[2] He later worked as a volleyball referee in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and became the secretary of the international referees committee of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball.[4]
Davenport played basketball at Wesleyan University, where he was a three- letterman in basketball and team captain in 1963–64. In addition to his basketball, he also lettered twice as a member of the Wesleyan golf team.[2]
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