JOHNNY LARA OF AUSTIN COLLEGE, a junior from El Paso, Texas, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Male Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 17, 2010.

Lara has been extremely active both in the Austin College and Sherman, Texas communities since arriving on campus three years ago. In addition to being a three year letter winner and starter on the Kangaroo men’s soccer team, Lara is also a member of the Zeta Chi Beta Fraternity and serves as the webmaster for the Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity.

Additionally, Lara is the service chair for both the Asian Student Association and Black Expressions, and is a team leader in FUSE Bible Study. He is also the social chair of the Austin College Dance Club and is an active participant in Mentors in Violence Prevention, as well as a board member of the Service Station on the Austin College campus. Lara is also a junior representative on the Austin College Student Assembly and is the service chair for the Catholic Student Association.

Within the Sherman community, Lara has been active with volunteer work at the Boys and Girls Club as well as with the Adopt a Highway program and the Humane Society. He was also a member of the SCAC Academic Honor Roll last year.