Courtesy: South Carolina Athletics
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The 2021 SEC Women’s Swimming & Diving Community Service Team was announced this morning by the league office. Senior Caroline Spence earned a spot on the squad for the first time in her career.
She has logged 100-plus hours of community service during the 2020-21 academic year. Along with several other student-athletes from other sports, she helped spearhead a backpack initiative project this past year as a part of a massive school supplies drive at W.G. Sanders Middle School in Columbia. It was a huge success with over 7,000 items donated as a part of the drive. The project’s goal was to provide a boost for educators and families who may be struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, Spence also volunteered several times at Harvest Hope Food Bank and she helped make Christmas cards for kids at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital of the Midlands. She has volunteered and participated in a vast variety of service projects throughout her time as a Gamecock, including Dance Marathon, Relay for Life, Salvation Army, Epworth Children’s Home and Boo at the Zoo – a Halloween event for kids at Riverbanks Zoo helped put on by the Gamecock Club.
The Lafayette, La., native will graduate this spring with a degree in public health.
In the pool, Spence is making her third SEC Championship appearance this week in Athens, Ga. She will be racing in the 100 fly, 200 fly and 200 IM for South Carolina.
2021 SEC Women’s Swimming & Diving Community Service Team
Halia Bower – Alabama
Maddie London – Arkansas
Emily Hetzer – Auburn
Ellie Hatton – Florida
Callie Dickinson – Georgia
Lauren Denham – Kentucky
Alexis Daniels – LSU
Sarah Thompson – Missouri
Caroline Spence – South Carolina
Emily Sykes – Tennessee
Charlye Campbell – Texas A&M
Whitney Brown – Vanderbilt
