Georgia women’s basketball redshirt junior guard Savannah Henderson has been through a lot in her four-year career.
Two ACL tears. A meniscus tear. Her mom, who doubles as Georgia‘s head coach, Katie Abrahamson-Henderson, said she doesn’t know any kid who would do what her daughter did or who would even want to do it.
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During Henderson’s true freshman year, which was in 2022-23, she played four games and was the team’s best 3-point shooter in the span before she was benched to a season-ending injury.
As a redshirt freshman, which was in 2023-24, she returned for the final 15 games of the season, scoring 33 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals.
Then, as a redshirt sophomore in 2024-25, she was injured before the season even started.
This season, as a redshirt junior, she’s finally seeing regular court time. She’s not averaging a ton of points, only 3.3 per game with 1.9 rebounds, but she’s having her moments and earning her flowers one contest after another.
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In Georgia’s 82-77 loss to Tennessee on Thursday, she only recorded 3 points, but those 3 points came off a jumper that tied the game 57-57 with 6:49 remaining on the clock in the fourth quarter. She also had 5 rebounds and 1 assist.
Henderson also had a massive save that the entire Georgia bench erupted out of their seats to smack her on the back for.
Abrahamson-Henderson said on Thursday night, Savannah had a really good game, even recording 2 offensive rebounds against the “monsters” that are the Lady Vols, the No. 7 offensive rebounders in the country.
“She’s finally getting her body under her,” Abrahamson-Henderson said. “It’s just very hard, that whole thing, it’s just very hard to have to go through it mentally and even want to do it. She’s in the gym, lifting every day double time. She does things that nobody else sees. I think the team really believes in her and she’s starting to feel more comfortable getting in the traffic, going in there and diving after loose balls.”
This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Georgia women’s basketball’s Savannah Henderson finding footing after injuries
