Jesus Veloz, Trinity University, Men's Soccer - Character & Community

Jesus Veloz, Trinity University, Men's Soccer - Character & Community

JESUS VELOZ OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY, a junior on the men’s soccer from Dallas, Texas, has been selected the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Character and Community Male Student Athlete of the Week for the week beginning January 30.

The SCAC Character & Community award honors the efforts of student-athletes who excel in the field of athletics, and also serve their campus and community.



Early on in his time on campus, Jesus found a connection with Trinity’s Mexico, the Americas and Spain (MAS) program on campus that helped him find a cultural connection to the University. 

“It’s a place you can go where you feel like you’re with your people,” Veloz said. “The professors are super nice, super welcoming. They don’t feel like professors, they fell almost like an aunt or uncle: a family member giving you advice.”

Trinity’s MAS program “promotes and enriches a bilingual and bicultural environment on and off of Trinity’s campus by providing students with opportunities for engagement with life, and culture from Latin America, the U.S. Latina/o contexts, and Spain.”

Through this connection, Veloz took part in a mentorship program with San Antonio’s Southwest Independent School District making himself available to students at Legacy High School as a guide through their own search for secondary education.

The Trinity defenseman understood how important this role was to him as he drew connection to his own experience as a first-generation college student though his mentor was much more familiar to him.

“My brother [Osvaldo] is the one that guided me through this,” Veloz said. “He was going through it for the first time too, he was a first-gen college student. I really looked up to my brother.”

The 2019 graduate of Trinity paved the way for his younger brother as the mentor Jesus would later become. As he has moved through his own college career, Jesus still has Osvaldo nearby.

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