Courtesy: SEC Sports activities
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (February 18, 2025) – The SEC sponsors Neighborhood Service Groups for all 22 league sponsored sports activities. The Neighborhood Service Crew seems to be to focus on an athlete from every faculty who offers again to their neighborhood in superior service efforts. The 2025 SEC Males’s Swimming & Diving Neighborhood Service Crew is as follows:
Drayden Bell, Junior, Alabama
All through his time at Alabama, Bell has volunteered with a number of organizations. Each Tuesday, he works with United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama serving to people with disabilities develop into extra lively by video games and sports activities. As an athlete advisor/mentor, Bell has helped assist and information student-athletes with psychological struggles, serving to to enhance their mindset. He is among the creators for Froz-Øne Swim, a corporation that promotes minorities in swimming by a podcast that shares tales and experiences. Bell has labored with Wichita KanSwim, instructing children from his house neighborhood totally different expertise and drills to assist them enhance their total efficiency. The UA junior’s mentorship extends to Matthews Elementary, the place he works to enhance scholar conduct and educational efficiency. Bell additionally greets new and present members at Church of Highlands and helps to movie the Alabama’s swimming and diving crew’s Pink Man Group, a gaggle that attends sporting occasions for the Crimson Tide with members painted in pink physique paint.
Britton Spann, Sophomore, Auburn
Spann has been an integral a part of the Auburn neighborhood since arriving on the plans within the fall of 2023. This 12 months alone, he has accomplished almost a dozen neighborhood service initiatives, totaling greater than 40 hours. A staple within the Auburn Finest Buddies program, Spann is a part of a corporation that goals to foster relationships between faculty college students and people ages 19 and older in Auburn and the encircling neighborhood with mental and developmental disabilities. Lending his hand in occasions that vary from Halloween events to common dinners and hangouts, he’s greater than an everyday face across the program. Spann additionally spends three hours of his time at a neighborhood preschool each Wednesday, studying books and serving to out wherever wanted. Earlier than the Christmas Vacation, he additionally frolicked with the Giving Hope program, ensuring the sensible wants of youngsters and households had been met throughout the vacation season. Spann was named to the First-Yr SEC Educational Honor Roll on the finish of final season.
Gio Linscheer, Junior, Florida
Linscheer has volunteered his time to college students inside Gainesville’s faculty district. By means of Florida’s Gator Expertise Program, he has had the chance to offer college students from Carolyn Beatrice Parker Elementary Faculty excursions of Florida’s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Through the tour, Linscheer takes half in explaining totally different facets of the stadium, whereas making the expertise participating and academic. A four-time All-American, he was named a 2024 CSCAA Scholar All-American in addition to a member of the All-SEC Second Crew and the Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll. Linscheer was additionally named to the SEC All-Freshman Crew and the First-Yr SEC Educational Honor Roll in 2023.
Jackson Bates, Senior, Georgia
Bates has participated in quite a few neighborhood service initiatives throughout his time on the College of Georgia. At present, he serves because the co-vice president of the UGA Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee. With the USA Swimming Basis, Bates assisted in instructing youngsters underneath the age of 10 the fundamentals of swimming. He additionally volunteered with Swim Throughout America to assist fundraising for most cancers analysis. Within the Athens space, Bates has contributed to Mission Moist, educating youngsters on aquatic environments, and to Mission Wild, instructing environmental consciousness. He has volunteered with the Athens Homeless Shelter to supply meals for residents, helped “stuff the truck” with the Meals Financial institution of Northeast Georgia, and assisted with the group of the annual Particular Olympics Promenade. Because the crew’s designated Neighborhood Service Tracker, Bates gathered teammates to help on the 2023 Clarke County Halloween Mentoring Occasion, in addition to assembling furnishings and cleansing the shop for Athens Habitat for Humanity. A 2024 SEC Neighborhood Service Crew honoree, he served as a SAAC crew consultant for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons earlier than being elected the group’s co-vice president. Bates volunteered as a coach on the Jack Bauerle Bulldog Swim Camps in 2023 and 2024. He was named to the 2023 and 2024 Faculty Sports activities Communicators Educational All-District Crew for Swimming & Diving. In 2023, Bates was awarded the UGA Dick Copas Management Award. He’s at the moment serving as a pacesetter within the UGA Scholar-Athlete Prayer Group.
Drew Johnson, Junior, Kentucky
Johnson developed a hurricane reduction drive for these affected in his hometown of Clearwater, Fla., gathering provides corresponding to meals, water, garments and home goods. He additionally obtained his faculty neighborhood concerned with a donation raffle, which entitled the winners the possibility to throw a pie within the face of a coach or a member of the UK supporting workers. Johnson has been acknowledged on the 2022-23 First-Yr SEC Educational Honor Roll and 2023-24 Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll.
Zayne Danielewicz, Senior, LSU
This 12 months, Danielewicz labored the swimming & diving’s sales space on the Halloween Boozar, which is an annual occasion that permits varsity LSU groups to attach instantly with the neighborhood by handing out sweet and enjoying video games with children who come to trick-or-treat. Most not too long ago, he participated in MLK Day of service, a chance for student-athletes to achieve out assist enhance their neighborhood by service whereas honoring and celebrating the lifetime of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This 12 months, Danielewicz labored at Cat Haven, a non-profit cat-only shelter in Baton Rouge, the place he cleaned the power and arrange the working room.
Will Whittington, Senior, Missouri
Whittington has amassed 107 hours of neighborhood service. He’s lively with Particular Olympics, serving to with swimming, basketball, bowling and different sports activities throughout the area. Whittington is a two-time member of the Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll.
Linus Kahl, Senior, South Carolina
Kahl tallied 30 hours of neighborhood service throughout his two years with South Carolina. He donated to the Faculty Provide Donation Drive and to the Week of Giving. Kahl volunteered on the Columbia Greek Pageant and arranged a park clean-up for the boys’s crew at Owens Park in Columbia. Kahl helped out on the MLK Day of Service Occasion and took part within the Firetruck Pull. A 3-time member of the SEC Educational Honor Roll, he garnered a spot on the 2024 CSC Educational All-District Crew and the CSCAA Scholar All-America Second Crew.
Ryan Williams, Junior, Tennessee
Williams has been lively locally since arriving at Tennessee, boasting 67 hours of service and counting. This 12 months, he’s taking part in UT’s VOLeaders Academy, which was developed to domesticate optimistic student-athlete leaders by sport to create optimistic social change. This summer time, Williams will conclude this system with a cultural trade journey to a different nation, making use of management expertise and taking part in service alternatives centered on neighborhood growth and social change. He’s additionally an lively member within the Volunteer Affect Academy, which is a program that gives college students with the platform to impression the neighborhood by creating sustainable change by management and repair. Along with his service within the Knoxville neighborhood, Williams additionally volunteers with the Truckee Tahoe Swim Crew when he goes house to California. He’s a two-time member of the Winter SEC Educational Honor Roll.
Will Modglin, Sophomore, Texas
Modglin is obsessed with youth health. After he was named Hook ‘Em’s Neighborhood Hero within the month of December due to his efforts, Truist donated $500 to organizations that assist and supply entry to youth health. Modglin has frolicked, alongside along with his father, volunteering at elementary faculty bodily training courses. He has additionally spent the last few summers educate swim classes to youngsters.
