SAMANTHA
MATULIS OF AUSTIN COLLEGE, a
junior pitcher on the women’s softball team
from Gilmer, Texas, has been has been selected the SCAC Character
& Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week
ending May 13, 2012.
Matulis has been an active member of the
Austin College community since arriving on campus as a freshman
three years ago, and in addition to a strong career as a pitcher on
the softball team, she has been a Dean’s List student and is
a member of Austin College’s prestigious Posey Leadership
Institute.
In both 2010 and 2011, Matulis worked as a
volunteer in Empower-A-Child in Kampala, Uganda, working with
Ugandan ex-child soldiers who were in need of psychological aid,
and in the fall 2011 semester returned to Uganda and volunteered at
St. Monica’s School for orphaned, ex-child soldiers.
Matulis has also worked in the Women’s
Crisis Center in Sherman and at Hidden Acres Summer Retreat Center
in Kaufman, Texas, where she worked with refugees. At Hidden Acres,
she helped to teach refugees American English language skills,
American history and American social and cultural norms.
Matulis was also a member of the Austin College
Student Assembly from the fall of 2009 through the spring of
2011.
SCAC Character & Community
Female Student-Athlete of the Week |
Week 1 |
Jessica Thornton, Birmingham-Southern
College |
Week 2 |
Kayte Forester, Southwestern University |
Week 3 |
Zoe Clark, Rhodes College |
Week 4 |
Blair Barrows, Sewanee: University of the
South |
Week 5 |
Leanne Gilder, Millsaps College |
Week 6 |
Amy Schornack, Colorado College |
Week 7 |
Anna Joliff, Hendrix College |
Week 8 |
Amelia George, Centre College |
Week 9 |
Natalie Nelms, Austin College |
Week 10 |
Catharine Found, Trinity University |
Week 11 |
Tori Van Wyen, Oglethorpe University |
Week 12 |
Theresa Wohldmann, University of Dallas |
Week 13 |
Anna Fareed, Southwestern University |
Week 14 |
Sharwil Bell, Rhodes College |
Week 15 |
Erin Wainwright, Birmingham-Southern
College |
|
Dolores Johnson, Austin College |
Week 16 |
Lauren Huter, Centre College |
Week 17 |
Lynne Bettinger, Trinity University |
Week 18 |
Erin McKinney, Hendrix College |
Week 19 |
Riley Cerone, Oglethorpe University |
|
Becky Luetjen, Colorado College |
Week 20 |
Heather Capozzella, University of Dallas |
Week 21 |
Logan Miller, Sewanee: University of the
South |
Week 22 |
Elizabeth Sigafoose, Millsaps College |
Week 23 |
Kate Siess, Oglethorpe University |
Week 24 |
Caitlin-Jean Juricic, Sewanee:
University of the South |
Week 25 |
Saranya Prathibha, Hendrix College |
Week 26 |
Kathryn Hays, Centre College |
Week 27 |
Jessica Gaines, Southwestern University |
Week 28 |
Grace Maloney, Colorado College |
Week 29 |
Samantha Matulis, Austin College |