(Forest City) Last April, the Forest City Community School District released its Class of 2025 Athletics Hall of Fame inductees. On that list of 2025 inductees is Atlantic Community Schools Educator and Head Boys’ Golf Coach Kendra (Hanson) Henningsen.
Kendra (Hanson) Henningsen and the four other inductees will be honored this week during Forest City’s homecoming. A public recognition ceremony will be held at the Boman Fine Arts Center on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Following their induction, they will participate in the Homecoming parade and be recognized during the football game’s halftime on Friday night.
Three athletes, Kendra (Hanson) Henningsen, Jeff Jerome, and Jon Nordaas, and two coaches, Larry Holstad and Paul Jensen, will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame.
Kendra Henningsen is a 2004 Forest City High School graduate who held school records in basketball and golf. She is a two-time champion of the Iowa High School State Golf Tournament. Kendra took her talents to the next level, playing golf at Iowa State University. Henningsen won the Iowa Women’s Amateur Golf Championship in 2008 and played one year on the women’s professional golf Symetra tour. In 2014, she was inducted into the Iowa Golf Coaches Association Players’ Hall of Fame.
The hall was created in 2023 to recognize former athletes, coaches, teams, administrators, and patrons who have made significant contributions to the district’s athletics program.
(Photo courtesy of Forest City Community School District)
