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California Institute of Technology

2015-16 Men's Tennis

Alex Henny

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 155
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Scarborough, ME
  • Highschool Scarborough HS

Biography

Honors
Most Improved (2012-13)

2016

   SINGLES

  • #1: 0-2
  • #2: 0-1

2015
Ranked 4th on the team in singles wins (5), 5th doubles wins (3).

  SINGLES (1 SCIAC win)

  • #4: 0-1
  • #5: 3-8
  • #6: 2-4

  DOUBLES (1 SCIAC win)

  • #2: 0-1
  • #3: 3-14

2014

  SINGLES

  • #5: 0-1
  • #6: 1-1

  DOUBLES

  • #3: 0-1

2013

  SINGLES (1 SCIAC win)

  • #2: 0-1
  • #3: 0-1
  • #4: 2-10
  • #5: 2-5

  DOUBLES

  • #3: 0-2

Research and STEM activities
Learned to program in NCAR Command Language by writing scripts to compute components of the moist static energy budget over the eastern United States and adjacent water following the method of a paper by Caltech GPS department members Bordoni and Chen with the aim of determining the energetic contributors to elevated precipitation near the Gulf Stream during the summer under the mentorship of Prof. Simona Bordoni as part of a SURF fellowship the summer of 2015...Studied volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and wrote a report on limit sets of Kleinian groups, using Methematics to compute and visualize these sets for different methods, as part of a SURF fellowship in geometry under Prof. Yi Ni and Dr. Maria Trnkova in summer 2014.

Prior to Caltech
Played tennis for all four years in high school...Played #1 singles as a junior and senior...Made the Maine All-Star team...Made the final 16 in the Maine State singles tournament...Member of the Runner up team in the entire state his junior year...Placed third in the Maine Association of Math Leagues as a senior.

Personal
Born in Tilburg, Netherlands...Son of Mary Wheeler and Rogier Henny...Has one younger sister, Laura.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2012-13First-Year

    5'11" 137 lbs
  • 2013-14Sophomore

    5'11" 140 lbs
  • 2015-16Senior

    5'11" 155 lbs