Rachel Henderson

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Rachel Henderson
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2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Henderson
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1992-09-08) 8 September 1992 (age 30)
Nuriootpa, South Australia
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportGoalball
Event(s)Women's Team

Rachel Henderson (born 8 September 1992) is an Australian goalball player and is classified as a B2 competitor. While only starting playing the game in 2010, she made the national team in 2011 and competed in the 2011 IBSA Goalball World Cup and 2011 African-Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in goalball.

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Personal life

Henderson was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia, on 8 September 1992. [1] [2] She has the visual disability of retinitis pigmentosa, a heredity disease she was diagnosed with when she was four years old. As a child, Henderson was involved in javelin, and only stopped competing in 2010 following taking up goalball. [1] She was also involved in swimming, representing South Australia in a few national competitions, before leaving the sport at the same time she quit athletics. [1] [3] She graduated from Nuriootpa High School in 2010. [2] As of 2012, she is studying with the goal of becoming a preschool teacher. [1]

Goalball

Henderson is a goalball player, and is classified as a B2 competitor. [1] She has a goalball scholarship with the South Australian Institute of Sport. [4] In 2011/2012, the Australian Sports Commission gave her a A$7,000 as part of their DAS grant program. [5] She does not play for a state team. Rather, she is coached by Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) Development Coordinator and athletics coach Cathy Lambert. [1] [6] Having not even heard of goalball a few months before, [7] Henderson took up the sport in 2010 following an invitation to attend a team training camp. [1] [3] [7] She made the national team in January 2011 at the national trials, [3] [7] and her national team debut in 2011 at the IBSA Goalball World Cup, where her team finished sixth, [1] [3] and she scored four total goals. [1] Her team made it the quarter-finals before losing to Russia 3–6. It then met the Spain women's national goalball team to try to earn a spot in the fifth/sixth place match, where Australia walked away 8–7 victors. In the fifth/sixth place match, it lost to the Israel women's national goalball team 6–8. [3] She played in the 2011 African-Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition and in its gold medal game against the New Zealand women's national goalball team, [8] which Australia won. [9]

Henderson was a named a member of the Aussie Belles that was going to the 2012 Summer Paralympics. [2] [10] [11] She was the youngest member of the team, and the only South Australian. [1] [2] That the team qualified for the Games came as a surprise, as the Australian Paralympic Committee had been working on player development with the idea of qualifying for the 2016 Summer Paralympics. [11] An Australian team had not participated since the 2000 Summer Paralympics, when they earned an automatic selection as hosts, and the team finished last in the competition. [11] [12] The country has not medalled in the event since 1976. [13] Going into the Paralympics, the team was ranked eighth in the world. [10] In the 2012 Summer Paralympics tournament, the Belles played games against Japan, Canada, the United States and Sweden. They lost every game, and did not advance to the finals. [14]

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