BECKY ATNIP OF RHODES COLLEGE, a senior guard on the women's basketball team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending November 29, 2009.

Not only has Atnip been a solid leader for the Lynx on the court - she led the team in scoring last season at 13.7 points per game - but she has also gone out of her way to volunteer around the city of Memphis.

After coming to Rhodes as a pre-med major, the Greenfield, Tenn., native changed her course focus to religious studies. During her sophomore year she volunteered at the Memphis Zoo in the Farm Area by cleaning stalls and feeding animals (goats, sheep, pigs, horses, prairie dogs, chickens, ducks, cows, etc.). She also delivered meals to the poor and elderly in the Memphis area through the Meals on Wheels program.

Atnip volunteered at a local barn exercising roping horses during her junior year and has worked the past two summers at the Rainbow Trout Ranch in Colorado. Always a positive influence on everyone that she comes into contact with, Atnip is the epitome of class and character.