Meg Greenfield, Southwestern University, Women's Cross Country

MEG GREENFIELD OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, a junior runner on the women's cross country team from Redmond, Wash., has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 21, 2012.

Greenfield was selected to the officer position of chaplain for Sigma Phi Lambda, charged with the spiritual direction of the sorority. She speaks in front of the chapter several times and plans who is going to speak at each chapter meeting. She assigns each student a prayer partner within the chapter and organizes covenant groups, which are smaller bible studies within the chapter. She also leads one of the covenant groups. Greenfield is also in charge of planning the retreat for the chapter where members play games, pray, talk about God, etc.

Greenfield is also a Peer Academic Mentor at Southwestern, meeting with first-year students one-on-one to discuss their academic struggles. She provides advice, guidance, refers to tutors and overall answers any questions they may have. She has also prepared and run workshops on various topics such as time management, note-taking, etc.

Finally, Greenfield is a member of SAAC.