SARAH
BRADSHAW OF CENTENARY COLLEGE, a
senior from Longview, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Character
& Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week
ending May 25, 2014.
Bradshaw, who served as President of the Centenary College
Student-Athlete Advisory Committee this past year, helped to
organize many activities throughout the 2013-14 academic year,
including the Centenary College Service Week, which is sponsored by
the Centenary SAAC.
This week-long event gave the student-athletes to interact and
assist with various organizations in the Shreveport community.
The 17 intercollegiate programs divided into small groups to lend a
helping hand at Common Ground, the Northwest Louisiana Food Bank
and Querbes SPAR Recreation Center with service projects that
consisted of dinner preparation, helping in the community garden,
cleanup projects, tutoring and various other activities.
“This is a new approach to service that we have implemented
this year,” said Bradshaw. “Community service is very
important to us and this is a great way to get everyone involved.
We as student-athletes believe that community service is important
to grow and expand the community and we are all excited to help in
any way we can.”
“With smaller groups, everyone can help and we can help many
different organizations with service projects instead of finding
somewhere large enough for all of us to go together,”
continued Bradshaw. “We paired teams up by their brother and
sister teams and then found places that needed some type of service
work done and sent student athletes there.”
The student-athletes totaled 200-plus hours of community service
during the week.
In addition to her role as SAAC President, Bradshaw played a huge
role in the mentoring and training of Resident Assistants. She
coordinated the “Sunshine Committee”, which helped
create a culture of caring among the Residence Life staff by
leading a committee that celebrated birthdays as well as spreading
“sunshine” to staff for encouragement. The group also
supported Centenary students and student-athletes by giving them
encouragement and promoting their activities across campus.
Bradshaw also assisted with the Salvation Army Toy Drive, Polar
Plunge, a canned food drive, Oxfam America and single-handedly
organized a Special Olympics Basketball game.
She also assisted with the campus MLK Service Day and worked with
Shreveport Green.
SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete of the Week |
|
Week 1 | Paige Duggins, Southwestern University |
Week 2 | Jamie Burns, Schreiner University |
Week 3 | Jennifer Kopetic, Texas Lutheran University |
Week 4 | Jaclyn Newell, Trinity University |
Week 5 | Sally Humphries, Austin College |
Week 6 | Catherine Dowgwillo, University of Dallas |
Week 7 | Kristen Liberty, Colorado College |
Week 8 | Kayla Thornhill, Centenary College |
Week 9 | Lauren Elliott, Southwestern University |
Week 10 | Kaitlyn Goertz, Schreiner University |
Week 11 | Christy Allen, University of Dallas |
Week 12 | Hannah Coley, Trinity University |
Week 13 | Natasha Benavides, Texas Lutheran University |
Week 14 | Lauren Wheeler, Austin College |
Week 15 | Molly Brown, Colorado College |
Week 16 | Karen Ramirez, Southwestern University |
Week 17 | Courtlynd Miller, Schreiner University |
Week 18 | Emily Low, Austin College |
Week 19 | Brooke Sanchez, Trinity University |
Week 20 | Christine Jablonsky, University of Dallas |
Week 21 | Sarah Bradshaw, Centenary College |