BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The SEC sponsors Neighborhood Service Groups for all 21 league sponsored sports activities. The Neighborhood Service Group appears to spotlight an athlete from every college who provides again to their group in superior service efforts. The 2023 SEC Ladies’s Swimming & Diving Neighborhood Service Group is as follows:

 Kensey McMahon, Graduate, Alabama

McMahon has been a workforce consultant for the Pupil-Athlete Advisory Committee for 4 years and presently serves on the manager board because the campus collaboration chair. As chair, she serves because the marketing campaign supervisor/public relations coordinator because the athlete consultant for all homecoming actions. Moreover, McMahon serves as coordinator of the college’s adaptive athletics occasion. All through her time in SAAC, she has helped with the annual Halloween Extravaganza, Beat Starvation Meals Drive and has participated in learn a louds in addition to assisted bodily training lessons in our native elementary faculties. In visiting the Tuscaloosa faculties, McMahon has been on the mentorship workforce with Brothers and Massive Sisters of West Alabama. She has been a Massive for 3 years the place they meet weekly for lunch. McMahon helps her Little with friendship, homework assist and encouragement in all her pursuits. All through her time on the College of Alabama, she has additionally been an energetic member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

 Reilly Shaner, Senior, Arkansas

Shaner participated within the Tyson Meals Truck Drive. She additionally helped volunteer within the Walker Park-Path Cleanup Challenge. Shaner contributed to the College of Arkansas Pupil Engagement Day on campus and was part of the homecoming post-event clear up. She helped lead the annual Store with the Razorbacks occasion through the vacation season, was concerned within the vacation caroling for the veterans and helped with the Christmas Reward Wrapping.

 Brynn Curtis, Junior, Auburn

Curtis has led the way in which for the Auburn Ladies’s Swim and Dive program for group service, donating greater than 50 hours of her time to group service in 2022-23. She has been a staple on the Lee County Humane Society, and has participated in initiatives at Story Brook Farms and the Massive Home Basis. Curtis volunteered on the INOVA hospital, helped manage a meals financial institution throughout Thanksgiving and Christmas and aided the Particular Olympics of Alabama.

 Nina Kucheran, Graduate, Florida

Kucheran labored as a group greeter for Well being Sciences North. She was additionally an advocate for psychological well being, volunteering for psychological well being coaching and occasions. Kucheran has served as an train physiology volunteer, a head campus captain, and a swimming educator at a neighborhood elementary college.

 Zoie Hartman, Senior, Georgia

Throughout her time in Athens, Hartman has labored with Turkey Palooza, offering Thanksgiving groceries and meals to older adults and households within the Athens space. She has additionally labored with Challenge Protected, donating objects to victims of home violence, in addition to Books for Retains, cleansing and organizing the warehouse for a group guide truthful. Hartman has assisted with Further Particular Folks (kids with autism, disabilities, and particular wants) in throwing a celebration evening, participated in a promenade evening for Particular Olympics, and is working with the Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens to revive and beautify the world. By way of the swimming workforce, she has participated within the Swim Throughout America 5K race and labored with the workforce in its Group Affect partnership to befriend a younger leukemia survivor. Hartman has been named to the SEC Educational Honor Roll and J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Honor Roll in all three prior years of her profession. She is an inductee to the L.E.A.D. Management Schooling and Improvement Program and a member of the Pupil-Athlete Advisory Committee, in addition to a member of the Palladia secret society. Moreover, Hartman was chosen to signify UGA on the Ladies in Management Conference in Kansas Metropolis in October 2022.

 Tori Orcutt, Junior, Kentucky

Orcutt has contributed over 130 hours of group service because the begin of the 2022-23 tutorial yr. She has labored with Southland Youngsters’s Ministry, AMACHI, Julius Marks Elementary College, Kentucky Swim Camp and extra. Orcutt has served as a mentor for youth in Lexington by way of AMACHI a company which goals to assist kids affected by incarceration. Different initiatives embrace main classes and actions for kids, helping at Christmas drives and talking with elementary college college students. Orcutt is a member of the Air Drive ROTC at Kentucky. She has gained the Neighborhood Service Award at CATSPY’S – UK Athletics’ annual award banquet every of the final two years.

 Jade Hannah, Sophomore, LSU

In December, Hannah helped the Recreation and Park Fee for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC) with the set-up, operation and clear up of a kids’s group occasion. She is part of the Black Pupil Athlete Affiliation (BSAA) and is the Vice President of the Household committee inside the swimming and diving program. Hannah oversaw the group of the MLK Day of Service with BSAA at a neighborhood animal shelter.

 Sierra Smith, Junior, Missouri

Smith has collected over 100 hours of service working with the Metropolis of Columbia and Columbia Public Faculties. She assisted Habitat for Humanity to assist native households. Smith has spent nearly all of her time working with the native group Turning Level, spending time with the group taking part in bingo and main bible examine. She is a two-time member of the Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll.

 Haley Mason, Junior, South Carolina

Mason has accomplished greater than 65 hours of group service this tutorial yr. She has primarily spent her time volunteering on the Free Medical Clinic in Columbia, SC. The clinic offers no-cost healthcare to Columbia’s underserved group and those that should not have insurance coverage. Mason started her work on the clinic in administration, submitting paperwork and serving to sufferers file for federal monetary assist. She has since started working instantly within the clinic, doing preliminary assessments resembling taking blood strain and figuring out case historical past to offer hospital referrals. Mason has additionally volunteered at each the Riverbanks Boo on the Zoo occasion and the Junior Gamecock Membership Halloween occasion the place she handed out sweet to kids. She is a pupil of the South Carolina Honors School and intends to take a pre-law observe the place she’s going to examine public well being coverage. Mason has served twice as a workforce captain for the college’s Relay for Life the place she assembled a workforce of 70+ individuals to fundraise for the combat in opposition to most cancers. She has additionally served on the college’s Pupil Athlete Advisory Committee and is on each the SAAC and the Swim & Dive Group’s group service groups. Mason is a two-time member of the SEC Educational Honor Roll and was a CSCAA Scholar All-American (Second Group) in 2022.

 Margaret Marando, Junior, Tennessee

Marando has helped out at a number of initiatives in Knoxville. In the course of the 2021-22 tutorial yr, she was a member of the VOLeaders Academy, which was developed to domesticate optimistic student-athlete leaders by way of sport to create optimistic social change. Her time with this system concluded with a cultural change journey to Rwanda, the place she utilized management expertise and took part in service alternatives centered on group growth and social change. Whereas at a Challenge Life Motion occasion final yr, she had her cheeks swabbed and later discovered she was a match for a four-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The lethal illness required an intensive operation to gather bone marrow from Marando, however the option to donate was a straightforward one and saved a life. She is a two-time SEC Educational Honor Roll choice.

 Caroline Theil, Senior, Texas A&M

Theil has volunteered to learn to second grade college students within the native Bryan-School Station space as part of Rev’ved As much as Learn. She served as Government Board Chief in WE(3)-Ladies Encourage, Equip & Empower for each the 2021-22 and 2022-23 college years. Within the fall of 2020, Theil stepped in as a Peer Mentor in Hullabaloo U whereas additionally being part of the Horizon Efficiency Rising Leaders Program. She additionally grew to become a Traditions Evening Huddle Chief within the Fall of 2021 and 2022.

 Chantal Jordan, Senior, Vanderbilt

Jordan served for over two years as a youth teacher with Swim America, managing a teams of as much as 15 people whereas educating water security and inspiring talent growth with a purpose to assist younger swimmers maximize their efficiency within the pool. She additionally has volunteered with the Fifty Ahead Retirement Middle and Brookdale Senior Dwelling during the last two years, and has twice taken half in actions with Feed the Youngsters. A member of the manager board of the Black Pupil-Athlete Group, Jordan is a participant with the Pre-Nursing Society and has additionally been concerned with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes whereas attending feminine sport Bible examine periods. Named to the SEC Educational Honor Roll every of the final two seasons and a member of the 2019-20 SEC First-Yr Educational Honor Roll, she has earned Dean’s Record honors on 4 separate events throughout her collegiate profession. Jordan has served as a workforce captain for the Commodores her senior season.