Career Highlights:
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2015 America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll
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2013 NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
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2013 NFHCA Scholar of Distinction
As a Senior (2016): One start in 16 contests for the Golden Bears…Racked up two goals, two assists and six total points with nine shots on the season…Opened the year with an assist against Northeastern (8/28)…Two shots at Wake Forest (9/25)…Scored a goal against UC Davis on Oct. 2…Earned the start against Vermont (10/15), her only start of the season…Notched her second assist of the season in Cal’s win at Maine on Oct. 16…Repeated the success with a goal against Maine in the semifinals of the America East Tournament (11/4)
As a Junior (2015): Tallied a career-best 10 points with four goals and two assists in junior campaign…Appeared in all 19 games with five starts…Led Cal after the first week of the season after scoring goals in back-to-back games vs. No. 5 Duke (8/28) and Bryant (8/30)…Goal against Bryant was the gamewinner…Also tallied goals in back-to-back games against Saint Louis (9/5) and Indiana (9/7)….Along with her goal, also notched an assist vs. Saint Louis for a career-high three-point single-game performance…Assisted on the gamewinner at Pacific (10/11)…America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll with a 3.5 GPA or higher in Fall of 2015
As a Sophomore (2014): Played in 18 games and earned eight starts as a forward … earned one assist on the year … tallied eight shots with five coming on goal, the second consecutive season she finished with those numbers … earned her assist in the season-opener against Fairfield when she connected for Ali Zimmer’s tying goal in the second half of a 2-1 win ... two of her starts came in the NorPac Tournament games against Liberty and UC Davis.
As a Freshman (2013): Played in 14 games with two starts at forward … registered one goal and one assist for three points … had one game-winning goal … tallied eight shots with five coming on goal … had her first career point with an assist on Andrea Earle’s game-winning goal in a 1-0 win against Liberty … scored her first collegiate goal in the NorPac Tournament consolation final against Radford, which was the game-winner in a 5-1 victory … named to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad and was an NFHCA Scholar of Distinction with a GPA of 3.90 or higher.
High School: Three-time first team All-Sunset League (2010-12)…Sunset League Most Valuable Midfielder (2010)…two-time Sunset League Most Valuable Forward (2011-12)…four-time team MVP (2009-12)…2009 second team All-Sunset League…five-time National Futures Championship competitor (2008-12)…club team was Hollywood Field Hockey Club (Shawn Nakamura)…2009 California Cup U16 champion and 2011 California Cup U19 bronze medalist…National Honors Society.
Personal: Full name is Nicole Grace Henriksson…parents are Ulf and Laura Henriksson…sister, Emily, played on the Stanford field hockey team…grandfather, Bo Peters, played football at USC…also has another sister, Anne Marie, and a brother, Luke
Major: Double Majoring in Political Science and American Studies, minor in journalism.
