Molly Brown, Colorado College, Women's Swimming

MOLLY BROWN OF COLORADO COLLEGE, a senior on the women's swimming and diving team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending March 9, 2014.

It didn’t take long for the native of Decatur, Ga., to become a leader, both on the deck at Schlessman Natatorium and on campus.

By the end of her freshman campaign, Brown held school records in both the 100 back (1:00.30) and 200 back (2:11.10), and helped her team break another one in the 200 medley relay (2:14.17).

As a sophomore, she posted CC’s top times in three events – the 200 back (2:17.21), 200 IM (2:17.38) and 400 IM (4:56.73).

During the fall semester of her junior year, Brown sacrificed her training to study in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. That experience led to her selecting development and foreign direct investment in Latin America as her senior thesis.

Brown’s commitment to community service also began during her freshman year when she was named service and philanthropy chair of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. One of her biggest projects was planning Kicks for CASA, a campus-wide kickball tournament which raises an average of $6,000 annually for CASA of the Pikes Peak region.

Throughout her four years at Colorado College, Brown has been a leader among student athletes as well as the entire campus community. This year she was elected president of Kappa Alpha Theta, named to the President’s Council and elected president of the senior class committee, which is responsible for selecting and fundraising for the senior class gift. This year, the committee decided to fund an endowed scholarship in the name of Reuben Mitrani, a classmate who passed away while studying abroad during his sophomore year. The scholarship will provide aid to a deep- need student each year.

During her first three years, Brown represented the swimming and diving team on Colorado College’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee before passing the torch to a teammate. During that time, she became one the organization’s representative to the SCAC and appeared in videos describing sportsmanship and what it means to be a Division III student-athlete, as well as another highlighting school spirit at CC for the #SCAC8in8 initiative.

The last two summers, she worked for the Colorado College Summer Conference office as an intern planning and executing all of the conferences that stay on our campus during the summer. This year, she fulfilled an internship with Kids are Dramatic, an organization with the mission of researching and developing education in the arts.

A three-time member of the SCAC Honor Roll, Brown has compiled a 3.33 grade-point average as an economics major with a minor in Spanish.