RICHARDSON, Texas - UT Dallas sophomore Rohan Springer has selected as the American Southwest Conference Male Community Service Athlete of the Year by the league's Directors of Athletics on Tuesday.

Springer, a cross country and track & field athlete from Plano, Texas, served as the Secretary/Executive Administrator for SAAC this past year and was chosen as President going into the next academic year. He was also chosen as the ASC/SCAC National SAAC Representative, too. Springer started a monthly department newsletter and was active in multiple community service projects on and off campus that SAAC was involved with. Those events included UTD homecoming, a canned food drive, City of Richardson electronic recycling and Special Olympics at the National Convention. Springer also spent a week in Jennings, La. rebuilding houses as part of the Mennonite Disaster Service. Other events included working graduation celebration with our marketing school, volunteering at a charity event for ENCAN, the National Foundation for to End Child Abuse and Neglect. He has volunteered at Minnie's Food Pantry, campus cleanups and Feed My Starving Children.

The ASC Community Service Award is presented for the 13th time this year and honors a male and female student-athlete who best displays leadership and action in fostering community service on their campus and local community. Each ASC member institution can nominate student-athletes to the conference-wide ballot.
 
Senior cross country and track & field athlete Rachel Kahler was the Comets' women's nominee.

Springer is the third UTD student-athlete to win the award, joining women's soccer player Chelsea Sartor in 2014-15 and women's basketball player Shannon Mathis in 2018-19.