Published on March 25, 2014 by Zac Schrieber  

If you check the box score after a Samford University men’s basketball game, you will not find Nathaniel Henderson’s name on a stat line. Henderson's name will not appear on the Bulldogs’ roster, either. Yet Henderson made a tremendous impact on Samford’s basketball season without ever getting a minute of playing time. His story is featured in a recent Southern Conference video produced by 2012 Samford graduate Jordan Gotfredson. A former Samford soccer player, Gotfredson is now assistant director of multimedia services for the SoCon.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,101 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.