The 5-foot-4 junior raced to a Top 30 finish in the highly competitive Nike Cross Southwest Region Girls Championship Race this past season, crossing the line with a personal-best time of 18:03.66. Henderson also took third at the Class 3A state meet—a loss she avenged at Nike—leading the Sundevils to second place as a team. At the Los Lunas Invitational, she won by 41 seconds, lifting her squad to the program’s first invitational meet team victory in five years.
Henderson has maintained a 3.98 GPA in the classroom. She will begin her senior year of high school this fall.
An accomplished artist in the media of acrylic canvas printing, ceramics and photography, Henderson has volunteered locally with Helping Hands at Sandia Prep, which undertakes service projects for the Roadrunner Food Bank. She has also donated her time to Service Learning at the Bosque School, helping coordinate a student body workforce that supports Locker 505, a student clothing bank that provides appropriate school attire to Bernalillo County students in need.
