JENNIFER
MCKINLEY OF MILLSAPS COLLEGE has been selected
the SCAC Character & Community Female
Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending March 21, 2010.
McKinley, a senior third baseman from Frisco,
Texas, who is a member of the Majors' softball team, is a
three-time Academic All-SCAC selection and was named to the
ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VI Second Team as
a junior after being a First Team honoree in 2008.
McKinley spent the summer of 2009 as a volunteer
at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s health
careers development program.
In the three-week program, she worked closely with both doctors and
patients in the intensive care unit as well as the waiting room and
had the opportunity to shadow doctors in the pediatrics
department.
McKinley also spent countless hours volunteering
at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children while a part of this
program.
In addition, McKinley spent a year as the
philanthropy chair for the Phi Mu sorority at Millsaps where she
organized and coordinated events for the members of the sorority to
participate in community service.