Graduated Monogram Winners AS A JUNIOR: Honda Sports Award recipient (second in school history, first since Cindy Daws in 1996) … first runner-up for Hermann Trophy … ESPY Award nominee for “Best College Female Athlete”, the only women’s soccer player (college, pro, domestic or international) nominated among the award’s 18 individual athlete categories … consensus first-team All-American and allregion choice … BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year … earned Most Outstanding Offensive Player honors at the NCAA College Cup after leading Notre Dame to its third national championship … started all 25 matches for the Irish, chalking up 17 goals (six match-winners) and a career-high 11 assists for career-best 45 points … one of 10 players in country to log double-digit goals and assists … ranked among top 20 in the nation in five categories — points (4th), goals (6th), points per match (6th - 1.80), goals per match (12th - 0.68) and assists (20th) … led BIG EAST (overall) in goals, goals per match, match-winning goals and points, and was second in assists and total shots (career-high 81) … opened her account with the only score in season opener against Minnesota (1-0) … set up Rose Augustin’s decider in fourth minute against #8 Santa Clara (1-0) … ignited ND’s twogoal flurry in 47 seconds vs. Texas Tech, scoring in 24th minute … potted match-winner just 1:11 into the contest at Loyola Marymount (1-0) … first multi-point match of season came at Northwestern (2-1), assisting on Elizabeth Tucker’s fifth-minute score, then converting penalty kick in 21st minute after being pulled down in box by NU keeper … blitzed #24 Louisville with five points (2G-1A) in 5-0 victory … had second twogoal match in as many outings with pair of braces against Syracuse (3-0) … made it three consecutive two-goal matches with a double against St. John’s (4-1), adding an assist for good measure … posted fourth consecutive multi-point contest with goal and assist vs. Seton Hall (2-1) … put Irish up for good with 65th-minute goal against Rutgers (3-2) … broke ice in 78th minute at Connecticut, and 74th minute at Georgetown, both matches ending in 1-1 draws … had team-high 10 points (3G-4A) in six NCAA Championship matches … scored first goal against New Mexico (3-0) on penalty kick at 20:24 … had goal and assist in second half against #22 USC (4-0) … repeated that feat in third round at #3 North Carolina (4-1), including huge insurance goal for Irish just 3:27 into second half … set up Tucker’s clincher with 20 seconds left in quarterfinal at #6 Oklahoma State (2-0) … carved up
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defense of #1 Stanford (1-0) in NCAA final, eventually assisting on Adriana Leon’s championship-winning goal in 63rd minute (leftside run to the byline and cut back a pass to penalty spot that Leon finished). AS A SOPHOMORE: Named a first team MVP (equivalent to All-America status) by Soccer America … also a first team all-region and second team all-BIG EAST selection … got off to a slow start while recovering from off-season leg surgery which saw her at less than 100 percent for the first six weeks of the season … still appeared in 24 matches (starting 22 times) … posted career-high 18 goals, five assists, 41 points, 66 shots (41 on goal) and set school records with nine matchwinning goals and 10 first goals … led BIG EAST (for all matches) in goals, points and match-winning goals … ranked 14th in the nation in goals per match (0.75) and 21st in points per match (1.71) … paired with All-American Lauren Fowlkes to form one of the top five goalscoring combinations in the nation with 28 goals (Henderson 18, Fowlkes 10) … capped season with one of the finest postseason performances in Notre Dame women’s soccer history, scoring 23 points (10G-3A) in eight matches between the BIG EAST and NCAA tournaments … opening the scoring ledger in season opener against Wisconsin (3-0) and added first goal in second match against Loyola-Chicago (2-0), setting up Molly Campbell’s 48th-minute clincher in the latter contest … scored for the third time in four matches to open the season with a two-goal outburst in the first 14 minutes against Wisconsin-Milwaukee (3-0) … iced BIG EAST opener against DePaul (4-0) on goal with two minutes to play … ended rare three-match scoring drought with early strike at West Virginia (3-2, ot) … had a hand in both goals at Seton Hall (2-0), finding the back of the net in the 23rd minute and creating Taylor Knaack’s insurance tally with less than five minutes left … after two-match injury absence, returned to the pitch in a reserve role against Villanova (2-0), breaking a scoreless deadlock with a 54th-minute goal … announced her return to full health in emphatic fashion against South Florida in the BIG EAST Championship quarterfinals, scoring a natural hat trick (on all three of her shots on goal) in the opening 28:03 of a 5-0 Irish win; it was the first postseason threegoal match for a Notre Dame player since Michele Weissenhofer’s hat trick in the 2006 NCAA quarterfinals against #8 Penn State, and the first by an Irish player in the BIG EAST tournament since 2004 when Katie Thorlakson scored four times in a quarterfinal
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win over St. John’s … assisted on both Irish goals in the BIG EAST final against #rv/10 Marquette (2-1), setting up Fowlkes’ opening score and passing to Erica Iantorno who crossed to Amanda Clark for the match-winner at 70:13 as Notre Dame claimed its 11th BIG EAST tourney crown (second in a row) … scored twice in NCAA Championship firstround win over IUPUI (5-0) … turned in finest individual NCAA tourney performance in Notre Dame history, singlehandedly dispatching Central Michigan (6-1) with a school record-tying four goals (on five shots on goal) including another natural hat trick in the first 33:04 of the match; the four goals also were an Irish record in NCAA Championship play … scintillating 1-v-1 effort set up Rose Augustin for night’s only score at 61:35 of third-round victory over Oregon State … scored off a loose ball in the area at #6 Florida State in NCAA quarterfinal, sparking a two-goal flurry in 51 seconds that carried Notre Dame to a 2-0 win and its fourth consecutive College Cup appearance. AS A FRESHMAN: Combined with Hermann Trophy winner Kerri Hanks to form the nation’s second-best goalscoring tandem, as the duo combined for 37 goals (Hanks 20, Henderson 17) … earned BIG EAST Rookie of the Year and first team Freshman All-America honors … first team all-BIG EAST selection … also named to the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team and took home Most Outstanding Offensive Player honors at the BIG EAST Championship (only second freshman to earn that award after ND’s future Hermann Trophy recipient Anne Makinen in 1997) … played in all 27 matches for the Irish, starting 20 times … scored 17 goals and added two assists for 36 points … was the team’s second-leading scorer behind Hanks … five of her goals proved to be match-winners … made her collegiate debut in Notre Dame’s 7-0 seasonopening win versus Michigan … came off the bench to net her first goal in that match, putting the Irish up 3-0 … also gave the Irish a 3-0 lead in their next outing, a 4-0 win over Loyola Marymount … had her first two-goal match versus SMU, propelling ND to a 5-0 win … opened the scoring in Notre Dame’s 3-1 win at #17 Penn State … scored her first career hat trick to lead Notre Dame to a 6-0 win at Cincinnati, becoming the 17th Irish freshman to register a hat trick … followed with a goal in Notre Dame’s next match , a 3-0 defeat of South Florida … scored the match-winning goal as the Irish downed #17 Georgetown (3-1) … scored two goals, including the match-winner at Providence (5-0) in just over 60 minutes of action …