Catharine Found, Trinity University, Volleyball

CATHARINE FOUND OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY, a senior right side on the women's volleyball team from Iowa City, Iowa, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending November 20, 2011.

Found is a three-year letterwinner for the Tiger volleyball team, having helped the team to one SCAC Championship and two appearances in the NCAA Playoffs during her career. She was named the team's Most Improved Returner last year, and earned SCAC Player of the Week honors during the 2010 season as well.

She is a member of the Gamma Chi Delta sorority on campus, and has served as both the Intramural Chair and on the Concert for the Cure Committee. Additionally, Found is a part of the Trinity University Ambassadors, helping facilitate formal lectures, dinners, meeting, and other events at Trinity. She is the Co-Chair of the group's Senior Gift Committee.

As a student researcher at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Found devoted hours studying patient-doctor relationships, and aided in the publication of a research paper in the American Journal of Public Health.

Found is in her second year as a member of Trinity's Students Organized for Sustainability and the Trinity University Volunteer Action Committee. Among her many roles were developing a glass recycling initiative on campus, improving "Recyclemania" at Trinity, and being a part of the Graffiti Wipeout group. 

Found has not only volunteered her time with her fellow students as a Freshman Seminar peer tutor, and as a Peer Leader for the Student-Athlete Body Project, but she has given back to both the San Antonio and other communities as well. She participated in Trinity's Alternative Winter Break where she mentored orphaned children and built housing for families in need in Matamoras, Mexico. Locally, she is involved in the Bridge Children's Shelter in which she mentors kids with troubled backgrounds, and is a member of P.A.W.S. - an animal rescue organization through which she has assisted the San Antonio Humane Society in cleaning and grooming animals, and other administrative tasks. Over the last three years, she has also volunteered her time with the San Antonio Race for the Cure.