JOSH SPENCER OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, a senior from Huntsville, Texas, who is a forward and captain on the men's soccer team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Male Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 4, 2009.

Spencer, who just netted a hat trick with three goals in Sunday's 8-1 victory over University of Dallas, is an active member of both the Southwestern and Georgetown communities. He is a triple major in Economics, Spanish and German and will be graduating with honors in May. Due to his impressive academic career, Spencer has been inducted into several honors societies including Chi Alpha Sigma, Alpha Chi National Honor Socity, Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Society, and Sigma Delta Pi.

On-campus, Spencer has served as a member of the Student congress as an off-campus representative and delegate to the faculty affairs council as well as treasurer on the executive council and chair of the Fees and Allocations committee. He successfully authored legislation to have the campus bookstore post online a month before the start of classes, a list of the required books for courses for the upcoming semester so as to help students lower their book costs through the use of alternative outlets. He has also served as president of the German Glub and was a food critic for The Megaphone and wrote a weekly article about local restaurants.

In the community Spencer has helped raise money for the Ride On Center for Kids, a place that specializes in hippotherapy. He also referees seventh grade soccer games as well as competitive soccer competitions at high school, youth and adult league, and all-star tournament levels. and was also selected to participate in the Olympic Developmental Program Regional Camp as a referee under a FIFA instructor. He is a youth soccer trainer of primarily 10 year olds for the Georgetown Soccer Association.

Spencer has interned in various areas including for Meritage Capital, LP, a hedge fund in Austin, Texas and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina last semester and authored a 40-page report about a topic dealing with the 2001 economic crisis.