Emily Shiraki, Trinity University, Women's Track & Field

EMILY SHIRAKI OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY, a sophomore jumper on the women's track and field team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending March 20, 2011.

Shiraki, whose primary event is the pole vault and owns the second-highest jump in school history, won the event as a freshman at the 2010 SCAC Championships.

Equally talented off the track, Shiraki's community service is very broad. Her volunteer efforts include helping in the Planned Service Excursion where she participaed in the Each One Teach One (tutoring for adult literacy). She has also volunteered at the Kid's Rock portion of the San Antonio Rock n' Roll Marathon. From this past August to December, Shiraki tutored for a total of 21 hours at Each One Teach One on the weekends, and this past July, she walked in the Relay for Life.

Shiraki also served as a volunteer at the 2010 SCAC Cross Country Championships, laying down mats, and helping with setup and tear down. She assisted in a similar manner at the 2010 NCAA D3 Soccer Championships that Trinity hosted this past fall.