BRANDEN JOVAAG OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY, a sophomore guard on the men's basketball team from Gainesville, Ga., has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Male Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending December 12, 2010.

Jovaag is a business administration major who has participated in many community service events in the Atlanta area, primarily at the Brookhaven Boy’s and Girl’s Club where members of the men’s basketball team have volunteered for the past seven years.

For five consecutive weeks throughout the fall, every member of the Stormy Petrels basketball team spends two hours a week at the Club. Typically, an afternoon includes working with the kids on their homework before attacking a special arts and crafts project that Bobby Dunn, the Brookhaven Boy’s and Girl’s Club Director, has conceived.

In addition to his weekly mentoring sessions, Jovaag and his teammates joined their friends at the Boy’s and Girl’s Club in October to help clear brush, shovel dirt, mulch and replace bleachers in a massive renovation project for the Brookhaven Club location.

Jovaag also serves as a member of the student-athlete advisory board, The Petrel Council.