Talbutt, a senior goalkeeper from Boise, Idaho, was selected as the female recipient after building an outstanding reputation for community service. The 2012 CCC nominee for the NAIA Dr. Leroy Walker Champions of Character Award last fall, she has worked extensively with the Lutheran Malaria Initiative, which works with churches and communities in Sub-Saharan Africa towards the goal of eradicating malaria by 2015. She travelled to Tanzania with LMI last summer and raised more than $13,000 for the organization upon returning to Concordia.