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You are here: Home / Hawks / Fall / Girls' Swimming / ‘Luckily, the coaches agreed!’: Henning reaches out to SDSU, will swim for Jacks

‘Luckily, the coaches agreed!’: Henning reaches out to SDSU, will swim for Jacks

April 7, 2022 by Dan Holm

Ankeny’s Alexis Henning swims the backstroke leg of the 200 medley relay during a dual meet against visiting Waukee last season. Henning has verbally committed to swim for South Dakota State. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)

Ankeny swimming standout Alexis Henning has verbally committed to join the women’s swimming and diving program at South Dakota State.

Henning said she visited only a few schools before making her decision.

“I had a small number of schools I was focused on to study architecture. I was lucky to find the type of school I was looking for that also had a swim program that was a good fit,” said Henning. “I wanted a smaller school in the Midwest with an architecture program so that kept my search small which helped a lot. I focused on choosing the right school fit first and then reached out to the SDSU coaches about swimming after that.”

Henning was a four-time state qualifier in the 100 backstroke. She placed 14th as a freshman, 12th as a sophomore, eighth as a junior and fourth as a senior.

Henning broke her own school record during the preliminaries at the state meet, when she posted a time of 56.81 seconds. She helped Ankeny to a fifth-place finish overall.

Henning placed seventh in the 50 freestyle in 24.69. She also swam on the fourth-place 200 medley relay and anchored the eighth-place 400 freestyle relay.

Henning called SDSU a mid-sized school with the benefits of a larger university.

“It’s big enough to have an architecture program, but smaller class sizes in my major,” she said. “They have great athletic facilities, and I thought I might be a good fit for their swim team. Luckily, the coaches agreed! I was impressed with their coaches and team culture. My club coaches know the head coach (Doug Humphrey) and said great things about him as well.”

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