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Always a serious student, Hencken captured five NCAA titles while swimming for Stanford, despite saving his best performances for a long course season which did not conflict with his academic pursuits...
After graduation in 1977. Hencken turned down a prestigious NCAA Scholarship for graduate study. In the opinion of his instructors, the award--one of five given annually to the nation's top scholar athletes--would not have enabled Hencken to study anything that on-the-job experience would not provide a better background...
...glad I chose Stanford. That was always my first choice. I was looking for a college where swimming and school could be combined. Jim Gaughran who coached the team while I was there always helped us keep everything in proper perspective," Hencken recalls...
Stanford thought enough of the young breaststroker to offer him only the second full swimming scholarship given in the school's history. A graduate of Cupertino High School, Hencken, whose early years in the sport were supervised by Tatto Yamashita at the Berkeley YMCA before the family moved to Snata Clara, followed in the foot-steps of Brian Job, another of Haines' proteges. Job, also a breaststroker, received that first full swimming scholarship given by Stanford...
...were my future. Now I am taking advantage of that education. I am planning on a very early retirement. If things go well, then in five years I'll be doing exactly what I want. That may include swimming and product design, but I want to have the choice." Hencken says...