Haris Takes

Men's Basketball

One of the best scorers of the 2000s for the Clarke men’s basketball team, Haris Takes is a member of the Class of 2025 Clarke University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Playing for CU from 2014 to 2018, Takes holds the third-highest point-scoring total in a career in program history with his 1,702 total points, one of only three players in Clarke men’s basketball history to eclipse 1,700 points in their career, leading to being the male recipient of the Ed Colbert Career Achievement Award in 2017-18.

A two-time All-Conference selection, Takes has his name littered all over the CU men’s basketball record book in nearly every major scoring category for a career beyond point scored, including being ninth in scoring average at 15.6 point per game, fourth in made field goals at 580, seventh in field goal percentage at 47.3 percent, seventh in made three-point field goals with 161, third in made free throws, and produced the best free throw percentage in school history with a minimum of 175 made free throws with his 82.5 percent mark from the charity stripe.

Playing in 109 games over his four seasons, tied for eighth-most in school history, Takes improved from one season to the next every single year seeing his 2017-18 senior season result in an NAIA All-America Honorable Mention selection where he produced career-highs in games played at 31, total points at 589, points per game at 19.0, rebounds per game at 4.5, assists per game at 2.1, while shooting 50.4 percent from the field, 47.9 percent from three, and 87.4 percent from the free throw line, nearing a vaunted 50/40/90 season.

Graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Takes has remained in the Dubuque area, founding the Dubuque County Basketball Academy, which is a year-round youth basketball program that has teams ranging from third grade to high school level as their focus is on developing the needed mental and physical skill sets required to be successful on and off the court. 

Takes hopes the Clarke Community will remember him as a kid who loved basketball and my teammates. That he is so grateful for the game and Clarke for giving him the opportunity to go to school and experience so much.