Lauren Huter, Centre College, Women's Basketball

LAUREN HUTER OF CENTRE COLLEGE, a senior forward on the women's basketball team from Louisville, Ky., has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending January 22, 2012.

Huter, who led the Colonels in scoring with 16 points and scored her 1,000th career point this past Friday night in a win over Southwestern, is as dynamic off the floor as she is on.

A Spanish and Economics double major with a minor in International Studies, Huter is a member of the Mental Health Board, Centre Christian Fellowship and Student Athletic Advisory Committee. She was part of a Hispanic Outreach Internship where she helped create and organize a basic personal finance class and taught the course to local eighth grade Hispanic children. 

Huter has been a camp counselor, taught elementary high school girls fundamentals in basketball and been a part of a Financial Services Roundtable. In addition, she has participated in a BITS Internship in Washington, D.C., and served as the Hispanic Society President at Centre, where she helped organize a Christmas Party for Hispanic children in the community, entertained guest speakers, and helped initiate Conversacion con Café meetings, where students of all levels of Spanish are encouraged to attend and practice speaking Spanish.

Huter has also tutored children in an after school program for Hispanic Children, volunteered as a health clinic translator, been the Pink Zone Coordinator, where she helped raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and has been a teaching assistant at Toliver Elementary school teaching Spanish to elementary students.