Natasha Benavides, Texas Lutheran University, Women's Basketball

NATASHA BENAVIDES OF TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, a senior point guard on the women's basketball team from San Antonio, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending February 16, 2014.

Benavides has lettered all four seasons at TLU and has been a captain for three of those seasons. Off the court, she is an outstanding student, carrying a 3.86 grade-point average. A double-major in mathematics and math education with a minor in psychology, Benavides is a math tutor, a member of the Math Club, and a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She is also a member of Pi Lambda Theta (honor society for education majors), Alpha Chi (the TLU Honors society), and Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges & Universities.

Outside of campus, Benavides has volunteered with her team and campus community in TLU community service days "Hot Dawgs" and "Day of the Dogs." She has also volunteered with her team at Eden-Cross Retirement Homes and at the MS 150 bike rest station in Seguin.

Benavides was a two-time Academic All-Conference selection in the American Southwest Conference, and she was a nominee for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. She is scheduled to graduate in December 2014 after completing her student teaching in the fall of 2014.