JENNIFER TINDLE OF SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, a junior guard on the women's basketball team who hails from Canton, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending January 2, 2011.

Tindle, who is also an all-conference performer in the triple jump for the Pirates' track & field program, serves as an admissions ambassador for the school. In this capacity, she gives tours to help recruit prospective students.

Tindle is also president of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honors society, and a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society and Chi Alpha Sigma. 

She tutors accounting and business students and has volunteered at tax centers in the spring as a member of the University Accounting Association.

Last summer, Tindle interned at Battelle Memorial Institute, a contractor for the Department of Energy at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. This spring, she will be interning with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston.