Henderson runs wild for Northern Arizona




ALEX'S BIG DAY-Former Calabasas High star Alex Henderson plows through the line last Saturday en route to a 265-yard, two touchdown performance against Eastern Washington University.

ALEX’S BIG DAY-Former Calabasas High star Alex Henderson plows through the line last Saturday en route to a 265-yard, two touchdown performance against Eastern Washington University.


Calabasas’ football team still hasn’t won a game this season, but last Saturday the program received a big boost from one of its former gridiron standouts.

Alex Henderson, a 2004 CHS alum and redshirt freshman running back at Northern Arizona University, rushed for 265 yards and two touchdowns as Northern Arizona defeated Eastern Washington 44-36.

Henderson’s 265-yard effort tied Youngstown State’s Marcus Mason for the third-highest single-game rushing total in NCAA Division I football this year. It was the second-best total in Division IAA, the level where Northern Arizona competes.

“Everything was just going right,” said Henderson, who ranks first among Division IAA freshmen ball carriers with 90.5 rushing yards per game.

“The line blocked well and I was able to break tackles. We were just trying to win a ballgame.”

Henderson, a criminal justice major, said he was proud of his performance, not only for himself and his current teammates, but also for the folks back home in Calabasas who supported him in high school.

“One of my goals is to try and put Calabasas on the map,” he said. Henderson, who became the

team’s starter in Week 2 and has rushed for 722 yards and scored five touchdowns in eight games, said he expects opposing teams to focus on stopping the run in the coming weeks.

“I have to keep getting better and act like nothing happened,” Henderson said. “We still have to execute and win games.”

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