2024 SEC Women’s Basketball Community Service Team

Birmingham, Ala. – In a continuing effort to recognize the accomplishments of student-athletes beyond the field of competition, the SEC once again highlighted a Community Service Team for women’s basketball for the 20232-24 season.

This marks the 26th year for the SEC Community Service Team for women’s basketball as well as for men’s basketball. All league-sponsored sports have had a Community Service Team since 2004, with at-large teams for men’s and women’s sports being chosen from 1999-2003. The SEC began this concept with a football Community Service Team in 1994.

Aaliyah Nye • Alabama Senior • Guard/Forward • East Lansing, Mich.

Aalyiah Nye, along with her teammates, played a huge role in volunteering at UA’s Bama Jam, where they helped welcome the new freshman to the Capstone. She also participated in the Alabama Athletics Halloween Extravaganza where she played games with fans and interacted with the community. Nye and the team spent an afternoon at Capstone Village – a local residential community for residents 55-years or older right on the University’s campus. The team enjoyed fellowship with the residents and playing games. During the holidays, the team spent multiple hours ringing the bell for Salvation Army at the city’s local mall to help raise donations for the organization.

Maryam Dauda • Arkansas Redshirt Sophomore • Foward • Bentonville, Ark.

Maryam Dauda leads the Arkansas women’s basketball team in community service hours with over 30 at the halfway point of the school year. The biggest project Dauda has been involved with is in her involvement with the Cherokee Nation, in which she spent the day in Tahlequah, Oklahoma engaging in several community service projects. She has participated in loading the Tyson Food Truck, as well as shopped and wrapped presents for the Porter House Family during the holidays and volunteered at the Haunted House for Down Syndrome. Dauda was involved with the Suits and Sneakers Gala, a big event in Northwest Arkansas to raise money and awareness for the American Cancer Society. Dauda has also partaken in autograph sessions following mostly all Sunday home games.

 Carsen McFadden • Auburn Senior • Guard • Fairview, Texas

Carsen McFadden has been active in multiple community service efforts with Auburn women’s basketball and through other areas on campus. She was part of the team participating in Opelika’s Juneteenth Celebration and helped coordinate visits with Our House with their Breakfast Club and Secret Santa projects. She has volunteered her time with the Lee County Youth Development Center and read to students at Ogletree Elementary School and Pick Elementary School. She also participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration with the Dream Day Foundation.

 Zippy Broughton • Florida Graduate • Guard • Wetumpka, Ala.

Zippy Broughton had a helping hand in several areas of the Gainesville community, volunteering in schools, churches, at food banks, and visiting the Ronald McDonald House. Broughton spent time and got to know students in five different schools this year: Oak Hall School, Meadowbrook Elementary, Lake Forest Elementary, Caring & Sharing Learning School, and Archer Elementary School. Broughton conducted mentoring programs in these schools, helped organize parades and pep rallies to bring joy to students in underrepresented areas. Broughton also delivered sneakers to children in need this holiday season, cooked breakfast for sick children at the Ronald McDonald House, and was matched up to be a mentor for a local student who needed a positive role model.

De’Mauri Flournoy • Georgia Junior • Guard • Carrollton, Ga.

De’Mauri Flournoy is Georgia’s leader off the court, routinely volunteering in community service projects at elementary schools in the Athens area. Flournoy serves on the Southeastern Conference Leadership Council and is the team’s representative on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee at the University of Georgia. She was also selected to participate in the NCAA Inclusion Forum this April.

 Emma King • Kentucky Graduate • Guard • Stanford, Ky.

Emma King has compiled more than 50 hours of community service during her nearly five seasons at the University of Kentucky. Most recently, she attended the West Jessamine High School girls’ basketball fall event in October 2023. There, she spent time with the players, mentoring them on basketball and school. It didn’t mark her first time serving at WJHS. In September 2023, she also visited and spoke to their FCA chapter. One of her favorite and more unique service projects was when she returned to Stanford Elementary School to attend the career fair. There, she spoke with classrooms about her experiences as a UK Athletics student-athlete. She volunteered at a Bullitt East girls basketball tournament, where she encouraged and inspired the girls, both athletically and spiritually. Other service activities that King has taken part in recently include making holiday crafts with patients at Morning Pointe Senior Living & Memory Care, packing boxes for God’s Food Pantry, fixing an aged building to be used for recreation in her hometown community and many others.

Flau’Jae Johnson  • LSU Sophomore • Guard • Savannah, Ga.

Flau’Jae Johnson enjoys using her platform to give back to the community and has logged over 145 community service hours during this academic year. Many of those hours have been spent with the Empower 225 Dream Center in Baton Rouge. LSU hosted Christmas Clubhouse with the Dream Center in December, helping to drive donations while also contributing her own donations for toys that went to underprivileged youth in North Baton Rouge that otherwise may have not received anything during the holidays. Another significant time commitment came with the Miracle League in Baton Rouge which works with people with special needs and allows them to compete in a baseball league.

 Snudda Collins • Ole Miss Senior • Forward • Brookhaven, Miss.

Snudda Collins has found many ways to give back to her state throughout her time at Ole Miss. Collins assisted with the Adopt a Basket program which donated over 100 Thanksgiving baskets to families in need throughout the Lafayette-Oxford-University community ahead of the holiday. She also worked with Feed the Sip to help with the collection of non-perishable food items that benefit elementary students throughout Tunica and Quitman counties. During the water crisis in Jackson, Collins worked to collect water bottles for those in need throughout the area. Collins has also been found in many elementary school classrooms throughout Oxford as part of Reading with the Rebels to increase and support literacy. She also partnered with the Ashley Homestore Hope to Dream event in providing bed sets to children in Tunica, Quitman and Lafayette counties. While in the Bahamas, Collins participated in a basketball clinic at the St. Francis and Joseph School in Nassau.

Mjracle Sheppard • Mississippi State Freshman •Guard • Kent, Wash.

Freshman guard Mjracle Sheppard has volunteered her time with multiple local organizations in his first season at Mississippi State. She often volunteers her time with the local organization Starkville Strong, which is a non-profit organization that works to provide a support system for those facing food insecurity, homelessness and housing insecurity. She has spent her time assisting at the local retirement home Montgomery Gardens and volunteers her time at the different Boys and Girls Clubs in Starkville. She has also taken part in volunteering with the Special Olympics through the MSU Access.

 Averi Kroenke • Missouri Sophomore • Guard • Columbia, Mo.

Averi Kroenke completed 20 hours of community service this year, serving primarily with the Missouri Women’s Basketball’s Tiger Paws initiative which empowers young kids through partnership with student-athletes. During the holiday season, Kroenke visited local youths at the MU Children’s Hospital. The sophomore participated in the United Way’s Read Across Columbia initiative where she distributed school supplies and read novels to those in the local public school system. On Juneteenth, Kroenke engaged with her hometown community serving at both a clinic and celebration in recognition of the holiday. Additionally, Kroenke worked with the Columbia Food Bank to package food and served alongside the Boys and Girls Club’s Hoops for a Cause.

 Bree Hall • South Carolina Junior • Guard •Dayton, Ohio

Bree Hall has been a steady contributor to the team’s community service efforts, especially around the holidays. She went with area youth on a Christmas shopping trip to Dick’s Sporting Goods and spent time with veterans at the local VA Hospital, including Christmas caroling. Bree has also given her time working with young people at the local Boys & Girls Club and a middle school. Hall is part of the SEC Basketball Leadership Council for 2023-24 and was selected by her peers to serve as vice chair of the women’s basketball group.

 Tess Darby • Tennessee Senior • Guard/Forward • Greenfield, Tenn.

Tess Darby has posted 84 hours of work in various communities through VOLoween, VOLeaders service trip to Rwanda, virtual reading to children and the annual Hoops For Hope event with the Down Syndrome Awareness Group of East Tennessee. She also visited the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Lonsdale Elementary P.E. class, the Love Kitchen and Young Williams Animal Shelter to share her time with those organizations. Darby also helped restock supplies at the Big Orange Pantry, offered support at the Reach for the Summitt 5K and Weigel’s Christmas, and lent a hand with the Women’s Basketball Angel Tree, Operation Christmas Child and Salvation Army Forget Me Not adopted Christmas Family. Additionally, she aided the Paris-Henry County Industrial Committee and put on the Darby 2 Darby Basketball Clinic with her sister, Edie.

Jada Malone • Texas A&M Junior • Forward • Spring, Texas

Jada Malone has been a pivotal piece of the Brazos Valley and one of the leaders at A&M in logging community service hours. Malone has been an active participant in Aggies Can which is an organization that has grown into the largest student-athlete volunteer run canned food drive in the nation. The collections for Aggies Can are given back to families and organizations to help impact the Bryan-College Station area. She is also the president of We3 (We Cubed) which seeks to encourage, equip and empower female student-athlete during their career at Texas A&M. Malone has also been the women’s basketball representative for the Aggies for the past two years at the SEC Basketball Leadership Council. The Spring, Texas, native has been integral for the Texas A&M REVved Up to Read Program which helps encourage reading at local elementary schools.

 Bella LaChance • Vanderbilt Senior • Guard •Davie, Fla.

Bella LaChance has spent a lot of time giving back to the community by going to elementary schools and participating in Fun Chapel Fridays, working in classrooms, reading and tutoring students, and playing basketball with them. She has spent 12 hours over the last 5 months at these schools. She is also our campus fellow for a nonprofit organization called Team Impact. Team Impact matches kids with life threatening or chronic illnesses up with college athletic teams. She has spearheaded the opportunities to bring this organization to Vanderbilt’s campus and has worked with neighboring campuses to make it a more well-known and popular nonprofit amongst the community. She is the first student to volunteer any of their time to give back to the community and always wants everyone to be involved.