ANNA JOLIFF OF
HENDRIX COLLEGE, a first-year
runner on the women's cross country team, has been
selected the SCAC Character & Community Female
Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 30,
2011.
Joliff, who hails from Newberg,
Ore., participated this summer in YCEW: Youth Challenged to
Expand their Worldview.
As a member of seven young adults from the Northwest Yearly Meeting
of Friends, Joliff spent four weeks in
Cambodia. The group stayed in major cities such as Phenom
Penh and Battambang, where they visited churches, temples, and
war memorials.
The seven also stayed in three different villages, all of which
were poor and rural. There, they completed service projects
and built relationships with local members of the community.
"We were humbled by the way in which the villagers graciously
accepted our presence, despite the fact that we came from foreign,
and comparatively privileged, backgrounds," said
Joliff. "I returned to the United States changed
and, surprisingly, invigorated by my experience. I was more aware
of how little I know, and more appreciative of what it could mean
to be an engaged and empathetic member of the global
community."
| 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 | |
| Week 9 | |
| Week 10 | |
| Week 11 | |
| Week 12 | |