Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference

Bonnie Henrickson was a standout on the St. Cloud State women’s basketball team from 1981 to 1985. Three times during her career she was named to the All-Northern Sun Conference (NSC) Team. Henrickson finished her career ranked second on the all-time scoring and rebounding charts with 1,731 career points (she now ranks sixth) and 995 rebounds (she now ranks fourth). She had a career average of 14.2 points per game and 8.1 rebounds. During her career, Henrickson held single game records for most free throw, best free throw percentage and best field goal percentage. She held season records for most free throws, most consecutive free throws and most rebounds. She is the career record holder for most games played at 122. She continues to hold the single game record for best free throw percentage of 100 percent as she made 15 of 15 free throw attempts in a game against Augustana College in 1984. She continues to rank in the top ten at SCSU in eight career categories. The Huskies won three straight Northern Sun Conference titles in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and advanced to national tournaments in each of the four seasons that Henrickson was a team member. The Huskies advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1983, 1984 and 1985. The 1982-93 team still holds the school record for most wins with 31 and the 1983-84 squad holds the mark for fewest losses with three. During her four-year career the Huskies posted a 97-25 record. Henrickson was inducted into the St. Cloud State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Henrickson began her coaching career as a student assistant for the Huskies. She then earned her master’s degree in physical education in 1988 from Western Illinois University while serving as a graduate assistant coach. She became an assistant coach at Virginia Tech and the University of Iowa before becoming the head coach at Tech from 1997-2004. In 2004 she took over as the head coach at the University of Kansas and turned around a struggling program that has advanced to postseason play for the fifth-straight season in 2011-12.