SUNY Cortland Athletics

After a stellar collegiate athletic career on Cortland’s field hockey and women’s lacrosse teams, Janine Henrickson has established herself as a successful clinical audiologist for the Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System in Brooklyn.

In four seasons of lacrosse at Cortland, Henrickson recorded 102 goals and 24 assists. She earned all-state honors in her junior and senior years. Henrickson helped the Red Dragons finish second nationally in the 1984 U.S. Women’s Lacrosse Association (USWLA) Division III tournament and third nationally in 1983. Cortland also placed seventh in the 1982 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) Division II tournament and won the 1984 ECAC Mid-Atlantic tournament title.

Henrickson played field hockey at Cortland for three seasons from 1979-81. The Red Dragons won the New York State AIAW crown in 1979 and also participated in the state tournament the following year.

A member of Cortland’s Speech and Hearing Club for three years as a student, Henrickson began her present clinical audiologist position in 1987. In 1990, she was chosen as a finalist for the New York Federal Executive Board Employee of the Year Award. She also has received the Award for Continuing Education from the American Speech and Hearing Association and earned a Citation of Appreciation in 2005 from the Brooklyn Key Chapter of the American Prisoners of War recognizing her dedicated service to hearing impaired POWs.

Henrickson received a master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1987 and a Doctor of Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2004. A 2008 inductee into the Manhasset High School Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Henrickson has served as an adjunct assistant professor at Brooklyn College since 1993 and has held similar positions at Hunter College and Long Island University. Since 2005, she has been a volunteer blood drive coordinator for the New York/Brooklyn/Staten Island community blood center.