Rica Johnson, Southwestern University, Women's Basketball

RICA JOHNSON OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, a senior guard on the women's basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending January 6, 2013.

Johnson, who is the first child/grandchild from her family to attend college, is majoring in Education with a minor in ESS, while garnering a 3.16 GPA. She has been involved in placements at a local middle school where she teaches seventh and eighth graders and she will be teaching at Eastview High School this academic year.

During her freshman year, Johnson dove into many activities on campus. She is a campus icon, of sorts, as everyone on campus seems to know of Rica's friendly, outgoing nature.

Johnson is highly involved in Operation Achievement (a mentoring program at the local middle schools) and the Neighborhood Conference Committee (NCC) of Williamson County where she mentors and assists at risk juveniles. She also manages to hold a paying job where she is a supervisor for the Southwestern Intramural and Recreation Department, volunteer at her church and play basketball for the Pirates.