Alex Hendricks

rdf:langString Alex Hendricks

rdf:langString Alex Hendricks

rdf:langString Alex Hendricks

rdf:langString Soccer / Cerebral palsy soccer

rdf:langString Alexander William Hendricks (born April 13, 1996) is an American cerebral palsy football player. He has paralysis on the left side of his body as a result of complications from a brain biopsy that created 2 strokes and a brain hemorrhage when he was a 13-year-old. Hendricks plays cerebral palsy football for the USPNT. After being called up in 2011, he has won a bronze medal at the 2012 BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, England, and went on to participate at 2012 Summer Paralympics where the USPNT lost all 5 games they played. Following those Games, he has continued to be called up to the national team, including the 2014 American Cup in Toronto, Canada of which the USPNT won a bronze medal. More recently he joined the USPNT for the 2016 Pre Paralympic Tournament in Salou, Spain. He then went on to participate at 2016 Summer Paralympics where the USPNT won 1 game, tied 1 game and lost 2 games.