Kim Feeney

Classroom

Feeney has displayed academic excellence throughout her collegiate career. She enters her senior year carrying a 3.91 grade point average while majoring in communication studies with a minor in business.  A Dean’s List honoree in each of her six semesters at Loyola Marymount, Feeney is a member of the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society, the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honors Society, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Additionally, her performance in the classroom in the last two years has earned her places on the West Coast Conference All-Academic teams, the CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII teams, and NSCAA All-West Region Scholar Athlete recognition. She was also the 2008-09 LMU Female Student-Athlete of the Year. In the summer of 2009, she worked as a television intern for a senior producer of Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, where she pitched potential stories, set up interviews, and assisted on on-site location shoots. She plans to return to the company in the spring semester.

Character

As a team captain both as a junior and as a senior, Feeney has shown tremendous leadership for the Lions, who have posted at least 10 wins in each of her three seasons. In addition to serving on LMU’s SAAC, Feeney is the school’s representative on the WCC SAAC, acting as liaison between LMU and the seven other member universities. In this role, she delivers important information, keeps abreast of current issues on campus and throughout collegiate athletics, and helps determine programs that will benefit all schools. On campus, Feeney is a member of the LMU SAAC Executive Board, holding bi-weekly meetings to discuss important issues at LMU and within athletics. Feeney also finds time to work with the Student-Athlete Mentors (SAM) program, which helps freshmen adjust to college life. Lastly, she is one of 10 soccer players to participate in the LMU Soccer Leadership Workshop, featuring sessions that create a better understanding of what leadership means. Feeney will have her toughest leadership and adversity test during her senior year as a result of a torn ACL suffered during the spring of 2009. She spent the off-season rehabbing her knee with the determination to be back on the field by the beginning of West Coast Conference play. Until then, she will be fulfilling her role as captain from the sidelines during practices and games.

Community

Feeney is one of the most active LMU student-athletes in the community. She has served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) since 2006, spearheading several community service efforts, including the annual Halloween Booling fundraiser, in which LMU student-athletes donate canned goods while spending the night bowling. In 2007 and 2008, she was a Special Games coach, helping mentally handicapped individuals at the three-day event. She has organized the Beach Clean Up project, in which LMU students adopted a local beach and spent their time collecting trash and documenting findings to help preserve the beach environment. She also helped renovate nearby Kentwood Elementary School, bringing LMU student-athletes to the school to plant new trees, clear weeds, and sweep the campus. In 2009, she and several teammates held a New Horizons Service Night, in which they held a prom-style event for adults with developmental disabilities. Most recently, Feeney was a major catalyst for LMU’s Soles 4 Souls Initiative, a WCC-wide campaign in which conference member schools partnered with Zappos.com to collect new or slightly used shoes that would be sent to impoverished areas. Feeney worked on marketing endeavors and set up collection locations, all of which helped LMU collect the most shoes of any of the eight schools, with more than 1,500 pairs of shoes donated.

Competition

Feeney has been a starter in defense from the first game of her freshman year. Since coming to LMU, the team has won 10 or more games in each of her three seasons and has posted an overall record of 32-15-10. As a junior, Feeney played the most minutes of any Lion out-field player (1,731) and helped the Lions to a third-place finish in the WCC, the program’s second-highest outright placing in school history. She was named LMU Female Student-Athlete of the Year at the end of the school year.In her first two seasons, LMU posted two of the three lowest goals-against-averages in school history. In 2006, she started all 19 games and helped LMU reach the NCAA Tournament for the second time in school history, earning several accolades along the way, including WCC All-Freshman Team and Honorable Mention All-WCC and Soccerbuzz.com fourth team Freshman All-American. She was also voted the team’s Rookie of the Year and LMU’s Freshman Female Athlete of the Year. In 2007, she was again Honorable Mention All-WCC as LMU tied the school record with 12 victories.