Sonja Henning
| Medal record | ||
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| Women’s Basketball | ||
Representing the  United States
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| U18 and U19 | ||
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1988 U18 Sao Paulo, Brazil | Team Competition |
| FIBA World Championship | ||
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1990 Malaysia | Team Competition |
| Pan American Games | ||
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1991 Havana | Team Competition |
Sonja L. Henning (born October 4, 1969) is an American attorney and former collegiate and professional women's basketball player. Born in Jackson, Tennessee, she grew up in Racine, Wisconsin, where she attended Horlick High School.
She attended Stanford University and played for its women's basketball team from 1987 to 1991. She helped the Cardinal win the 1990 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship game, defeating Auburn University. The following year, Henning was named Pac-10 Player of the Year and a Kodak All-American in her senior season.
An economics major, Henning graduated from Stanford in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
After graduation, there were few opportunities for women to play professional basketball in the United States at the time, so Henning started her professional career playing in a women's professional basketball team in Uppsala, Sweden in 1992.
Henning was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The event was known as the Junior World Championship Qualifying Tournament at the time. The event was held in August 1988, when the USA team defeated the host team Brazil by a score of 70–68 to win the championship. Henning sank two free throws with under one second remaining in the game to win the final game and the gold medal.
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