Kelly McDaniel, Austin College, Volleyball

KELLY MCDANIEL OF AUSTIN COLLEGE, a senior setter on the women's volleyball team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 14, 2012.

McDaniel has been a standout both on and off the court as a member of the Kangaroo volleyball team. Over the past two seasons, as the team's starting setter, she has ranked among the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference leaders in assists, and has also distinguished herself in both the Austin College and Sherman communities.

McDaniel has worked with the Grayson Women's Crisis Center, where she helped help raise awareness for domestic violence, and the Grayson County Animal Shelter. Additionally, over the summers McDaniel has given free private volleyball lessons, and as a member of the Omega Zeta sorority has helped to sponsor a child in Africa as well as raised money for the Ella Barker Memorial Fund, which remembers the daughter of the sorority's sponsor, a professor at Austin College.

She has also participated in Lymphomathon, a 5k that raises money for Lymphoma research.

McDaniel has also served as the president of Austin College's Student Athlete Advisory Council, and this year is that organization's secretary.