2024 SEC Women’s Basketball Community Service Team

Birmingham, Ala. – In a seamless effort to acknowledge the accomplishments of student-athletes past the sphere of competitors, the SEC as soon as once more highlighted a Group Service Workforce for ladies’s basketball for the 20232-24 season.

This marks the twenty sixth yr for the SEC Group Service Workforce for ladies’s basketball in addition to for males’s basketball. All league-sponsored sports activities have had a Group Service Workforce since 2004, with at-large groups for males’s and girls’s sports activities being chosen from 1999-2003. The SEC started this idea with a soccer Group Service Workforce in 1994.

Aaliyah Nye • Alabama Senior • Guard/Ahead • East Lansing, Mich.

Aalyiah Nye, alongside along with her teammates, performed an enormous position in volunteering at UA’s Bama Jam, the place they helped welcome the brand new freshman to the Capstone. She additionally participated within the Alabama Athletics Halloween Extravaganza the place she performed video games with followers and interacted with the group. Nye and the workforce spent a day at Capstone Village – a neighborhood residential group for residents 55-years or older proper on the College’s campus. The workforce loved fellowship with the residents and taking part in video games. Through the holidays, the workforce spent a number of hours ringing the bell for Salvation Military on the metropolis’s native mall to assist elevate donations for the group.

Maryam Dauda • Arkansas Redshirt Sophomore • Foward • Bentonville, Ark.

Maryam Dauda leads the Arkansas ladies’s basketball workforce in group service hours with over 30 on the midway level of the college yr. The largest mission Dauda has been concerned with is in her involvement with the Cherokee Nation, through which she spent the day in Tahlequah, Oklahoma partaking in a number of group service initiatives. She has participated in loading the Tyson Meals Truck, in addition to shopped and wrapped presents for the Porter Home Household in the course of the holidays and volunteered on the Haunted Home for Down Syndrome. Dauda was concerned with the Fits and Sneakers Gala, an enormous occasion in Northwest Arkansas to lift cash and consciousness for the American Most cancers Society. Dauda has additionally partaken in autograph classes following principally all Sunday dwelling video games.

 Carsen McFadden • Auburn Senior • Guard • Fairview, Texas

Carsen McFadden has been energetic in a number of group service efforts with Auburn ladies’s basketball and thru different areas on campus. She was a part of the workforce collaborating in Opelika’s Juneteenth Celebration and helped coordinate visits with Our Home with their Breakfast Membership and Secret Santa initiatives. She has volunteered her time with the Lee County Youth Improvement Middle and skim to college students at Ogletree Elementary College and Choose Elementary College. She additionally participated within the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration with the Dream Day Basis.

 Zippy Broughton • Florida Graduate • Guard • Wetumpka, Ala.

Zippy Broughton had a serving to hand in a number of areas of the Gainesville group, volunteering in colleges, church buildings, at meals banks, and visiting the Ronald McDonald Home. Broughton hung out and received to know college students in 5 completely different colleges this yr: Oak Corridor College, Meadowbrook Elementary, Lake Forest Elementary, Caring & Sharing Studying College, and Archer Elementary College. Broughton carried out mentoring applications in these colleges, helped set up parades and pep rallies to carry pleasure to college students in underrepresented areas. Broughton additionally delivered sneakers to youngsters in want this vacation season, cooked breakfast for sick youngsters on the Ronald McDonald Home, and was matched as much as be a mentor for a neighborhood pupil who wanted a optimistic position mannequin.

De’Mauri Flournoy • Georgia Junior • Guard • Carrollton, Ga.

De’Mauri Flournoy is Georgia’s chief off the court docket, routinely volunteering in group service initiatives at elementary colleges within the Athens space. Flournoy serves on the Southeastern Convention Management Council and is the workforce’s consultant on the Variety, Fairness and Inclusion committee on the College of Georgia. She was additionally chosen to take part within the NCAA Inclusion Discussion board this April.

 Emma King • Kentucky Graduate • Guard • Stanford, Ky.

Emma King has compiled greater than 50 hours of group service throughout her almost 5 seasons on the College of Kentucky. Most just lately, she attended the West Jessamine Excessive College ladies’ basketball fall occasion in October 2023. There, she hung out with the gamers, mentoring them on basketball and college. It did not mark her first time serving at WJHS. In September 2023, she additionally visited and spoke to their FCA chapter. Certainly one of her favourite and extra distinctive service initiatives was when she returned to Stanford Elementary College to attend the profession honest. There, she spoke with school rooms about her experiences as a UK Athletics student-athlete. She volunteered at a Bullitt East ladies basketball match, the place she inspired and impressed the ladies, each athletically and spiritually. Different service actions that King has taken half in just lately embrace making vacation crafts with sufferers at Morning Pointe Senior Residing & Reminiscence Care, packing bins for God’s Meals Pantry, fixing an aged constructing for use for recreation in her hometown group and lots of others.

Flau’Jae Johnson  • LSU Sophomore • Guard • Savannah, Ga.

Flau’Jae Johnson enjoys utilizing her platform to present again to the group and has logged over 145 group service hours throughout this tutorial yr. Lots of these hours have been spent with the Empower 225 Dream Middle in Baton Rouge. LSU hosted Christmas Clubhouse with the Dream Middle in December, serving to to drive donations whereas additionally contributing her personal donations for toys that went to underprivileged youth in North Baton Rouge that in any other case might haven’t obtained something in the course of the holidays. One other vital time dedication got here with the Miracle League in Baton Rouge which works with folks with particular wants and permits them to compete in a baseball league.

 Snudda Collins • Ole Miss Senior • Ahead • Brookhaven, Miss.

Snudda Collins has discovered some ways to present again to her state all through her time at Ole Miss. Collins assisted with the Undertake a Basket program which donated over 100 Thanksgiving baskets to households in want all through the Lafayette-Oxford-College group forward of the vacation. She additionally labored with Feed the Sip to assist with the gathering of non-perishable meals objects that profit elementary college students all through Tunica and Quitman counties. Through the water disaster in Jackson, Collins labored to gather water bottles for these in want all through the realm. Collins has additionally been discovered in lots of elementary college school rooms all through Oxford as a part of Studying with the Rebels to extend and help literacy. She additionally partnered with the Ashley Homestore Hope to Dream occasion in offering mattress units to youngsters in Tunica, Quitman and Lafayette counties. Whereas within the Bahamas, Collins participated in a basketball clinic on the St. Francis and Joseph College in Nassau.

Mjracle Sheppard • Mississippi State Freshman •Guard • Kent, Wash.

Freshman guard Mjracle Sheppard has volunteered her time with a number of native organizations in his first season at Mississippi State. She usually volunteers her time with the native group Starkville Sturdy, which is a non-profit group that works to supply a help system for these going through meals insecurity, homelessness and housing insecurity. She has spent her time helping on the native retirement dwelling Montgomery Gardens and volunteers her time on the completely different Boys and Women Golf equipment in Starkville. She has additionally taken half in volunteering with the Particular Olympics by means of the MSU Entry.

 Averi Kroenke • Missouri Sophomore • Guard • Columbia, Mo.

Averi Kroenke accomplished 20 hours of group service this yr, serving primarily with the Missouri Ladies’s Basketball’s Tiger Paws initiative which empowers younger children by means of partnership with student-athletes. Through the vacation season, Kroenke visited native youths on the MU Kids’s Hospital. The sophomore participated within the United Manner’s Learn Throughout Columbia initiative the place she distributed college provides and skim novels to these within the native public college system. On Juneteenth, Kroenke engaged along with her hometown group serving at each a clinic and celebration in recognition of the vacation. Moreover, Kroenke labored with the Columbia Meals Financial institution to bundle meals and served alongside the Boys and Women Membership’s Hoops for a Trigger.

 Bree Corridor • South Carolina Junior • Guard •Dayton, Ohio

Bree Corridor has been a gentle contributor to the workforce’s group service efforts, particularly across the holidays. She went with space youth on a Christmas buying journey to Dick’s Sporting Items and hung out with veterans on the native VA Hospital, together with Christmas caroling. Bree has additionally given her time working with younger folks on the native Boys & Women Membership and a center college. Corridor is a part of the SEC Basketball Management Council for 2023-24 and was chosen by her friends to function vice chair of the ladies’s basketball group.

 Tess Darby • Tennessee Senior • Guard/Ahead • Greenfield, Tenn.

Tess Darby has posted 84 hours of labor in varied communities by means of VOLoween, VOLeaders service journey to Rwanda, digital studying to youngsters and the annual Hoops For Hope occasion with the Down Syndrome Consciousness Group of East Tennessee. She additionally visited the East Tennessee Kids’s Hospital, Lonsdale Elementary P.E. class, the Love Kitchen and Younger Williams Animal Shelter to share her time with these organizations. Darby additionally helped restock provides on the Huge Orange Pantry, provided help on the Attain for the Summitt 5K and Weigel’s Christmas, and lent a hand with the Ladies’s Basketball Angel Tree, Operation Christmas Youngster and Salvation Military Neglect Me Not adopted Christmas Household. Moreover, she aided the Paris-Henry County Industrial Committee and placed on the Darby 2 Darby Basketball Clinic along with her sister, Edie.

Jada Malone • Texas A&M Junior • Ahead • Spring, Texas

Jada Malone has been a pivotal piece of the Brazos Valley and one of many leaders at A&M in logging group service hours. Malone has been an energetic participant in Aggies Can which is a corporation that has grown into the most important student-athlete volunteer run canned meals drive within the nation. The collections for Aggies Can are given again to households and organizations to assist influence the Bryan-School Station space. She can also be the president of We3 (We Cubed) which seeks to encourage, equip and empower feminine student-athlete throughout their profession at Texas A&M. Malone has additionally been the ladies’s basketball consultant for the Aggies for the previous two years on the SEC Basketball Management Council. The Spring, Texas, native has been integral for the Texas A&M REVved As much as Learn Program which helps encourage studying at native elementary colleges.

 Bella LaChance • Vanderbilt Senior • Guard •Davie, Fla.

Bella LaChance has spent quite a lot of time giving again to the group by going to elementary colleges and collaborating in Enjoyable Chapel Fridays, working in school rooms, studying and tutoring college students, and taking part in basketball with them. She has spent 12 hours over the past 5 months at these colleges. She can also be our campus fellow for a nonprofit group referred to as Workforce Influence. Workforce Influence matches children with life threatening or continual sicknesses up with school athletic groups. She has spearheaded the alternatives to carry this group to Vanderbilt’s campus and has labored with neighboring campuses to make it a extra well-known and in style nonprofit amongst the group. She is the primary pupil to volunteer any of their time to present again to the group and at all times needs everybody to be concerned.