BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The SEC sponsors Group Service Groups for all 21 league sponsored sports activities. The Group Service Crew seems to spotlight an athlete from every faculty who offers again to their group in superior service efforts. The 2023 SEC Gymnastics Group Service Crew is as follows:

 Sania Mitchell, Graduate Scholar, Alabama

Mitchell leads the gymnastics workforce in group service hours, accumulating over 35 hours this yr. She volunteers at organizations such because the We Care Household Apply Clinic, Skyland Elementary Day Care, RISE Heart UA and Habitat for Humanity. Mitchell additionally volunteers every Wednesday on the Tuscaloosa Soup Kitchen. She is a three-time member of the SEC Educational Honor Roll and is presently pursuing a graduate diploma in Well being Schooling Promotion, the place she has maintained a 4.0 postgraduate GPA. Mitchell additionally acquired the Crimson Tide’s Lewis Every Braveness Award for the 2022 season, which is the very best honor given to an Alabama gymnast.

 Maddie Jones, Sophomore, Arkansas

Jones is one among two gymnastics representatives on the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee, who represents their fellow student-athletes and acts as a liaison to the College of Arkansas, the Athletic Division, the SEC and the NCAA. She has participated within the Tyson Meals Truck Occasion, Cartwheels for Dyslexia, making craft kits at NWA Youngsters’s Hospital, the Nationwide Ladies and Girls in Sports activities Day Mini Clinic, and Salute to Veterans. Jones can also be taking part within the second season of the Gymbacks’ Giveback Marketing campaign, through which athletes have chosen causes near their hearts to fundraise. Coming from a navy household, Jones is advocating to lift funds for Bo’s Blessings, a company in Northwest Arkansas devoted to “offering applications, assist, and assets that assist veterans transition again to a civilian life with their households and their group,” in addition to the Northwest Arkansas Youngsters’s Hospital.

 Sophia Groth, Sophomore, Auburn

Groth and her workforce have been energetic in studying at a number of elementary faculties and preschools all through the college yr these previous two years. As well as, Groth and her teammates have executed gymnastics demonstrations at space elementary faculties, selling the significance of energetic existence. She has additionally served on management panels at elementary faculties. Along with her service to the native faculties, Groth has performed a big function in native toy and meals drives. She has participated in meals drives to assist feed fellow school college students who’ve meals insecurities over the past two faculty years. Groth additionally spearheaded a serious toy drive within the Auburn space, supplying presents to the native group Huge Home in December 2022. She has served on a Title IX panel in addition to a gala that funds an area group.

 Chloi Clark, Junior, Florida

Clark volunteered greater than 60 hours for group service occasions since fall of 2022. She participated in a subject day for Noah’s Endeavor. Clark wrapped and delivered sneakers and socks as a part of the Gator Tracks program, which distributed 400 sneakers to Gainesville space youth in December of 2022. She was a frequent participant within the Lunch Buddies Mentor Program at Terwilliger Elementary Faculty, serving as a job mannequin for the youth of Gainesville. Clark additionally visited Oak Corridor Faculty as a part of Gators Learn and helped at kickoff for Ladies on the Run. She contributed at many actions centered on psychological well being and serves as UF’s 2022-23 Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee Psychological Well being Chair. The recipient of the 2022 Gator Gymnastics’ Most Improved honors, Clark was named to the 2021-22 Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll and the 2020-21 First-Yr SEC Educational Honor Roll.

 Haley de Jong, Senior, Georgia

As a senior chief of the Georgia GymDogs, de Jong has gone past her name of responsibility to the UGA and Athens group. She was a 2021 Georgia Management Academy Inductee and is a member of the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee. Over the course of the final 4 years on the College of Georgia Haley has taken benefit of quite a few volunteer alternatives, together with Gymnastics Particular Olympics, Lydia’s Place, Athens Boys and Ladies Membership, the again to highschool occasion with Howard B. Stood Elementary Faculty, and Operation Teammate.

 Ashlyn LaClair, Senior, Kentucky

LaClair has recorded over 60 hours of group service within the Lexington space. She has volunteered with 14 completely different causes and organizations, together with: God’s Pantry, Amachi, Kentucky Youngsters’s Hospital, Southland Christian Church, Ladies on the Run, Leestown Center Faculty, Samaritans Christmas Baby Operations, Meals on Wheels, the Roots and Heritage Parade, Paws 4 the Trigger, KEDC – Kentucky Academic Growth Company, American Purple Cross, Christian Appalachian Challenge, and Ronald McDonald Home. A 3-time member of the Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll, LaClair is a member of UK’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). She is concerned with the native non-profit I Am Second in addition to Dam Price It, a peer-led psychological well being consciousness campus marketing campaign. LaClair was named a Girls’s Collegiate Gymnastics Affiliation (WCGA) All-America Scholar-Athlete in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

 Sierra Ballard, Junior, LSU

Ballard is the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) consultant for the LSU Gymnastics workforce, the place she additionally serves on the particular occasions committee. Her accountability on the committee is to assist manage occasions round campus for all student-athletes. Ballard is closely concerned in group service efforts round gymnastics and all through the Baton Rouge group. This yr, she offered raffle tickets for Dream Come True Basis, made baskets for Basket of Hope for Our Girl of the Lake sufferers and households and meals banks across the space. Ballard additionally participated within the Blue-Ribbon Soiree, an occasion that raises analysis cash for prostate most cancers, the Grateful Tiger drive, which donates faculty provides for foster children, and the Miracle Baseball League. She is closely concerned in Athletes for Hope, which is a corporation that helps athletes round campus with psychological well being in addition to the group by way of service and advocacy.