Birmingham, Ala. – In a unbroken effort to acknowledge the accomplishments of student-athletes past the sphere of competitors, the SEC as soon as once more highlighted a Neighborhood Service Crew for girls’s basketball for the 2022-23 season.

This marks the twenty fifth 12 months for the SEC Neighborhood Service Crew for girls’s basketball in addition to for males’s basketball. All league-sponsored sports activities have had a Neighborhood Service Crew 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 Neighborhood Service Crew in 1994.

 Ryan Cobbins • Alabama Senior • Guard/Ahead • Kansas Metropolis, Kan.

A senior with the Crimson Tide, Ryan Cobbins leads the Alabama girls’s basketball group in neighborhood service hours. Cobbins started working with the Rise Heart over the summer season. On the Rise Heart, she helped younger kids each with and with out particular wants develop abilities needed to achieve a college setting. Cobbins has additionally helped with UA’s Halloween Extravaganza, an occasion that celebrates Halloween and permits kids inside the neighborhood to play video games and trick-or-treat with Alabama student-athletes. Moreover, Cobbins and the UA girls’s basketball group hung out throughout the vacation season giving again to the neighborhood. The group and Cobbins attended the Houndstooth and Holly occasion hosted by the Capstone Village, an area residential neighborhood for residents 55 years or older, the place they judged a vacation sweater contest. The group additionally hung out on the West Alabama Meals Financial institution, making ready meals to be distributed to younger college students and the neighborhood for the vacations.

 Rylee Langerman • Arkansas Junior • Guard • Norman, Okla.

Rylee Langerman is among the leaders in neighborhood service hours on the Arkansas girls’s basketball group, a squad that is among the frontrunners in neighborhood service hours as a group at Arkansas. This 12 months alone, Langerman has volunteered for the Goodard College and has participated in Christmas purchasing for adopted households. As somebody who fights with Alopecia and misplaced all of her hair in center college, she views the autoimmune illness as a blessing moderately than burden, utilizing her platform to encourage little girls and boys coping with the identical factor to at all times be self-confident. Earlier within the schoolyear, Langerman took half in a e book signing for the discharge of Beanies, Ball Caps and Being Bald: Totally different Is not Dangerous, Totally different is Simply Totally different. The youngsters’s e book opens the dialog for bodily variations and sharing the fundamentals of youngsters who cope with Alopecia. Langerman served as one of many inspirations the creator needed to write this e book. Following video games, Langerman additionally indicators autographs and spends a substantial period of time after the video games to take photographs with followers and little ladies who look as much as her.

 Honesty Scott-Grayson • Auburn Redshirt Senior • Guard • Brick, N.J.

Honesty Scott-Grayson has helped coordinate a number of neighborhood service initiatives together with the Auburn girls’s basketball group. She helped with the Boys and Ladies Membership Christmas Celebration and has been a part of the Breakfast Membership at Drake Center College in Auburn. She was a part of the carpool service group at Richland Elementary College, and she or he has additionally participated in Hoops for Hope and with the Azalea Assisted Residing middle. Honesty can also be a part of the SEC Ladies’s Basketball Management Council.

 Nina Rickards • Florida Senior • Guard • Queens, N.Y.

Florida senior Nina Rickards has discovered quite a few methods to present again to the neighborhood throughout the 2022-23 season. In the summertime, Rickards, alongside her teammates, assisted Habitat for Humanity in constructing properties for households in want of an honest place to dwell. Throughout the early fall, Rickards assisted the Particular Olympics of Florida with their go to with Gators’ girls’s basketball, whereas additionally making time to go to sufferers within the pediatric most cancers unit at Shands Hospital to brighten their day. The Queens, N.Y., native can also be a member of Gators Lunch Buddies, a program the place college students eat lunch with a number of grades and lessons at Terwilliger Elementary, along with becoming a member of the fifth graders for recess and appearing as mentors for all the college students.

Brittney Smith • Georgia Senior • Ahead • Orlando, Fla.

Brittney Smith has been a frontrunner in a number of neighborhood service initiatives for Coach ABE and the Georgia girls’s basketball program. Smith and the Girl Bulldogs have a partnership with Stroud Elementary, the place the group routinely visits to learn to fifth graders. Lately, the group visited the Manor Lake Assisted Residing and Reminiscence Care Heart and spent the afternoon there taking part in video games with the residents. Georgia additionally paid a go to to the Athens Salvation Military over the Holidays, the place they served meals within the soup kitchen and helped within the warehouse. In December, underneath the management of Aliyah Gregory, Smith and the Girl Bulldogs hosted a Toy Drive, the place followers may drop off donations to be given to home violence shelters. The drive, which was began at UCF in 2015, was an enormous success throughout its first season in Athens.

 Blair Inexperienced • Kentucky Graduate • Guard • Harlan County, Ky.

Blair Inexperienced has donated greater than 80 hours of neighborhood service throughout her time competing on the College of Kentucky. She has executed the whole lot from pack meals at God’s Pantry, to jot down Valentine’s Day playing cards for an area nursing house, to take part in a number of walks to finish Alzheimer’s, to guide a bunch of underserved kids by the Mamba and Mambacita Abilities Academy. A number of of her most excellent providers embrace orchestrating a “606 Camp” for Japanese Kentucky flood aid, washing kids’s ft and becoming them for brand spanking new footwear by Samaritan’s Toes Worldwide and deep cleansing the homeless shelter on the Lexington Hope Heart. By way of the “606 Camp,” she and several other of her native teammates raised greater than $3,000 for the flood victims of Kentucky, guiding kids by a basketball abilities camp.

 Emily Ward • LSU Senior • Ahead •Bossier Metropolis, La.

Emily Ward has engaged with a wide range of organizations throughout her time at LSU. She has participated in a Large Buddy mentorship program in addition to a motorcycle drive that gives 425+ bikes in a number of cities throughout Louisiana. She labored with an elementary college throughout the group’s journey for the Maui Traditional. She additionally works with Tiger Life on many occasions resembling Grateful Tiger and BooZar. As well as, Ward is a two-year member of the SEC Basketball Management Basketball Management Council.

 Madison Scott • Ole Miss Junior • Ahead • Indian Head, Md.

A member of the Ole Miss student-athlete advisory committee, Madison Scott partnered with Ashley Homestore’s Hope to Dream occasion in offering 50 beds in Tunica, Quitman and Lafayette counties. She additionally assisted with native Morning Carpool’s in native elementary faculties across the space whereas greeting kids exiting the carpool line and busses and labored with Studying with the Rebels in visiting native elementary faculties within the Lafayette and Oxford space the place she learn and engaged with kids within the lecture rooms. She was a group member within the Jackson, Miss. Water Disaster Assortment in aiding within the assortment of over 10,000 water bottles for the town as they had been battling their water disaster. Scott additionally joined the Ole Miss girls’s basketball group in supporting campus Panhellenic chapters of their imitative to boost consciousness to the campus and the neighborhood on the significance of most cancers. As well as, she labored with the Feed the ‘Sip group within the assortment of over 7,000 non-perishable meals gadgets to kids in Tunica and Quitman County. Whereas within the Bahamas, helped with a basketball clinic and studying with the Rebels session on the St. Francis and Joseph College in Nassau, Bahamas. She labored to assist acquire over 500 hygiene merchandise on highway journeys as part of the Hygiene Hijack group. Scott can also be a member of the CASA Undertake-a-Little one group in offering Christmas gadgets for six foster kids.

 Anastasia Hayes • Mississippi State Graduate •Guard • Murfreesboro, Tenn.

This 12 months Anastasia Hayes has participated in a number of neighborhood service initiatives all through the Starkville neighborhood. Anastasia has been lively member within the native Boys & Ladies Membership, the place she will get to work together with kids in the neighborhood. Hayes has additionally spent numerous hours on the Starkville Human Society together with becoming a member of her teammates as McKee Park as a part of Service Dawgs Day. Anastasia has additionally participated within the SOUP Basketball Clinic in addition to Trick or Deal with with our Dawgs.

 Sarah Linthacum • Missouri Sophomore • Ahead • Jefferson Metropolis, Mo.

Sarah Linthacum has gone above and past in offering acts of service to her speedy neighborhood and the state of Missouri. Linthacum has hung out mentoring and serving on the Boys and Ladies Membership of Missouri and performed a pivotal function in Missouri basketball’s Hoops for a Trigger Boy’s and Woman’s Membership Fundraiser. As well as, she has led a Learn A-Thon at Gant Elementary College in Columbia and assisted on a number of events with restoration efforts on the JW Blind Boone Neighborhood Heart and the Coyote Hill Kids’s House. As well as, Linthacum has repeatedly donated her time to Particular Olympics Missouri volunteering at quite a few occasions and fundraisers all year long. She additionally takes an lively function within the Missouri’s Tiger Paws Program which seeks to enhance participation in sport by giving unique entry to younger kids and partnering them with present gamers.

 Sania Feagin • South Carolina Sophomore • Ahead • Ellenwood, Ga.

Sania has been dedicated to serving all through her profession, particularly younger individuals in the neighborhood. She is at all times up for a college go to, joyful to do something from an early-morning Excessive-5 Friday at an area elementary college to mentoring at an space center college. She participated in Christmas Giving, sorting non-perishable meals gadgets for the aged throughout Christmas in addition to March Insanity Studying occasion and a Pen-Friends program.

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

As a member of Tennessee’s VOLeaders Academy, Tess Darby launched into a management and repair journey to Rwanda in the summertime of 2022. Whereas there, she participated in “Collectively in Sport,” serving to promote wholesome habits and sport to native kids in addition to serving to run a girls’s empowerment program instructing teenage ladies how you can sew as a method for regular employment. She additionally was concerned with “Taking pictures Contact,” a corporation utilizing basketball to offer well being and wellness providers to younger kids and girls; “Musanze Tennis Membership,” the place she helped facilitate video games and drills with the youngsters on this program, a lot of whom by no means performed tennis or had entry to the game; and “Sunzu Village Sport Pageant,” that includes a day of play with kids within the village, the place a brand-new playground was unveiled and she or he helped train the youngsters how you can use it. Darby additionally participated in a number of different outreach alternatives. She was concerned with Hoops for Hope, a enjoyable day of basketball with the Tennessee girls’s and males’s groups for people with Down Syndrome; Attain for the Summitt 5K, serving as a cheerleader for contributors within the Pat Summitt Basis fundraising occasion; Voloween, a Tennessee Athletics Halloween occasion for campus workers households; Younger Williams Animal Shelter, volunteering to feed animals, clear cages and provides walks; and Undertake a Household, a Christmas occasion partnering Tennessee Ladies’s Basketball and East Tennessee Kids’s Hospital.

 McKinzie Inexperienced • Texas A&M Graduate • Guard • Manvel, Texas

McKinzie Inexperienced was an lively participant within the Rev’ved As much as Learn 2nd grade studying program. She additionally helped construct bikes for kids within the Brazos Valley over the Christmas Break. Inexperienced was part of the AggiesCan Meals Drive, the most important student-ran canned meals drive within the nation and helped present meals throughout Thanksgiving to households in Aggieland. Moreover, the graduate scholar wrote letters to first responders to point out her appreciation for his or her work and sacrifice.

 Marnelle Garraud • Vanderbilt Graduate • Guard • Lynn Mass.

In her first season with this system Garraud has contributed to a number of of the Commodores’ neighborhood service efforts all year long. She has visited on quite a few events with college students at Eakin Elementary College, offering a mentor and management to underprivileged kids, and has additionally helped assist Subsequent Steps at Vanderbilt, a four-year inclusive increased training program dedicated to offering neurodiverse college students an inclusive, transformational postsecondary training in lecturers, social and profession growth, and unbiased dwelling, whereas honoring equality, compassion, and excellence in all endeavors. Garraud has additionally supported the Mom to Mom group, which helps low-income households thrive by offering important assets in order that under-resourced kids within the Nashville neighborhood could be protected and wholesome. She has additionally been lively inside Vanderbilt’s graduate program serving to present assist and data to potential college students since arriving on campus final summer season.