SEC announces 2023 SEC Softball Community Service Team

Shipman participated in a number of collaborative community service opportunities with fellow Alabama
student-athletes, including the annual Halloween Extravaganza, which allows area children to interact
and play games with Alabama student-athletes while dressed in Halloween costumes. For National
Girls and Women in Sport Day, Shipman and some of her Crimson Tide softball teammates spoke to
young girls at local elementary schools about their experiences as female student-athletes. She also
spoke with local Girl Scouts about best practices and potential dangers with social media and life as a
college student-athlete. Shipman was selected as Alabama's female nominee for the SEC's 2023 H. Boyd
McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also tapped into The XXXI at Alabama, an all-female
honor society recognizing women who have shown great commitment to the University through service,
leadership and character.

An education major at Arkansas, Sockey is enthusiastic about giving back to the community as she
participates in several community service events both on and off the field. She participates with Miracle
League of Arkansas by assisting children with special needs play baseball and softball. With Miracle
League, Sockey builds relationships with players and helps teach the game of softball. In addition to
volunteering with Miracle League, she guest speaks at local Arkansas schools and discusses the
importance of education and academics. Most recently, Sockey visited a school in Nashville, Ark., and
discussed why it is important for children to stay on top of their grades and attend class. In addition to
mentoring students on striving for academic excellence, she advises students on how to use social
media properly. Sockey also participates in Arkansas' annual Salute to Veterans. She was named a
2022 NFCA Academic All-America Scholar Athlete.

Cox led the team in total hours of volunteering, primarily through serving on Auburn's Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee. As part of SAAC, she helps find different organization within Auburn and Opelika
areas, is responsible for communicating details of community service events to her fellow
student-athletes and helps SAAC marketing initiatives to help promote community service opportunities.
Cox participated in five different team volunteering events throughout the 2022-23 academic year.
She volunteered for the Auburn Downtown Trick-or-Treat, which allowed members of Auburn athletics
to team up and interact with kids throughout the community during the Halloween event. Cox also
helped coordinate Auburn softball's yearly "Toys for Tots" donation. She used a large portion of her NIL
compensation to buy essentials like winters clothes as well as toys and bikes. The "Toys for Tots" event
is Cox's favorite event as she feels like every child should have a found memory of Christmas, no
matter what their family or economic situation. She has worked with the campus food pantry, which
collects food for low-income students that attend Auburn so that they can solely focus on academics.
Cox also participated in Operation Iron Ruck, another annual event where softball donates items to
veterans that have returned to Auburn to finish their education. The team donates basic needed items
like deodorant, toothpaste and used textbooks to help relieve some of the financial burden of returning
to school. Cox also volunteered at Auburn's local humane society by handmaking dog toys. On campus,
she has assisted in college career fairs, checked in students, guided employers, and gave her peers
words of encouragement/affirmation on stressful interview days.

Through the Goodwill Gator Volunteerism program, Goelz has volunteered over 90 hours this academic
year in the greater Gainesville community and has touched numerous lives along the way. This year, she
has participated in reading and mentoring programs at numerous elementary schools, and visited children
at Shands Hospital who need an uplifting presence. Around the community, Goelz participated in voter
registration drives, served dinner to those who have no home to go to, aided in canned food drives and
volunteered with Gator Tracks. She was recognized this year with the Gators Experience Athlete of the
Year Award, which is given to the female student-athlete with the most engagement with the Gators
Experience program in community service, leadership and career programming.

Since 2015, Walters has been an active member of Save a Lab, which is a dog-fostering service for mothers
and puppies. In recent years, she has volunteered with the Miracle League and has devoted time with the
Special Olympics at UGA. Walters spent time her freshman and sophomore years taking part in Glenwood
Learning Adventure Days, tutoring students at local elementary schools in academia and Spanish to English.
She participated in Project Backpack, distributing food to elementary students. Walters worked with inner city
children on basic softball skills training at the Connect Training Center, and helped with basic skills training
for local softball youth teams at Diamond Academy Sports Performance. She appeared on the 2021 All-ACC
Academic Team and was a four-time member of the ACC Honor Roll. She earned her undergraduate degree
in Evolutionary Anthropology & Biology from Duke in May 2022 and is currently pursuing her Master's in
Kinesiology - Exercise Physiology at Georgia.

Fragoso has volunteered over 50 hours community service to the Lexington area in her time as a Wildcat.
She has logged hours with several different entities including Sayre FCA, Grace Christian Church, the Albany
First Baptist Church, FCA, Geaux Teal, Amichi, The American Red Cross, God's Pantry and the Kentucky
Athletics Department. In the Lexington area, Fragoso has also devoted her time with God's Pantry, where she
helps to pack lunches for underserved communities within Lexington and brings them to local elementary
schools for kids who are challenged financially. Additionally, she is heavily involved in the Kentucky Athletics
FCA and works on UK financial meetings within the department.

Newland leads the Tigers in community service hours this season. She most recently assisted with the Geaux
Teal Ovarian Cancer Awareness Walk, which was held on LSU's campus. Newland assisted with packing
registration packets, walk logistics, and outreach with cancer survivors and family members of those who were
unable to attend. Notable connections made with the community include youth softball clinics with the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes and assisting with a kindergarten field trip at Tiger Park in March. In August, she
was a key contributor to the Basket of Hope efforts on campus. Newland also participated in the Thankful Tiger
Drive in November. She has volunteered for the LSU Tiger Life "Service Socials" on campus during the fall and
spring semesters. Newland is the LSU Softball representative on the SAAC committee at LSU. She was named
to the 2022 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll and to the 2020-21 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll. An
NFCA Scholar Athlete, Newland has been named to the Dean's List every semester. She is a member of the
Student Athlete Advisory Committee at LSU. Newland was one of two athletes chosen to represent LSU at the
2021 SEC Career Tour.

During the holiday season, Whitley helped collect over 1,300 items and donated 107 baskets to families in need
throughout the LOU community as part of the athletic department's annual Adopt-A-Basket service project. She
also helped lead the charge on Ole Miss' annual Feed the Sip food drive, which collected 7,000 food items to
donate to children in Tunica and Quitman Counties. This season, Whitley helped Ole Miss collect over 6,000
non-perishable food and hygiene items to donate to those who suffered loss during the tornados in the
Mississippi Delta in March. She has given back to children in the Oxford-Lafayette community through initiatives
such as Reading with the Rebels, visiting elementary classrooms to read to students and discuss the importance
of good behavior and her experience as a student-athlete. Whitley also serves as a member of the Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee (SAAC) at Ole Miss, helping represent all athletes at the university and enhancing the
student-athlete experience.

McKenna led the team in service hours this year, with the majority of her efforts focused on children in the community.
She volunteered at a local trick-or-treating event in the fall, visited both a local elementary school and the Starkville
Public Library to read to children and worked two sporting events for college students with intellectual and
developmental disabilities. Highlighted among those efforts was volunteering at the Special Olympics Egg Bowl flag
football game between MSU and Ole Miss and assisting the pitchers in a wiffle ball game for students that were part
of the MSU ACCESS program. Additionally, McKenna has spent time cleaning campus, packing necessity boxes at
the United Way in Columbus, writing Valentine's Day letters to residents of an assisted living facility and greeting
students as they are dropped off at middle school. She has participated in two cancer awareness and fundraising walks.
In October, McKenna was part of the Pink Dawg Walk on campus that benefited breast cancer survivors and research.
In April, she and the Bulldogs participated in the Geaux Teal Walk which raised funds and awareness of ovarian cancer,
which took the life of former Bulldog Alex Wilcox in 2018. In addition to her service activities, McKenna's future career
path and internships throughout her college career have been dedicated to serving her community. As a criminology
major and the daughter of two members of law enforcement, McKenna hopes to pursue a career in that field following
graduation.

McGivern leads the Missouri softball team in community service hours. She has volunteered at the Thompson Center
for Autism, the Downtown Optimist Club, and at the Mid-Continent Summer League Camp along with campus clean-up
projects. McGivern has also volunteered her time with Special Olympics at the Missouri Outdoor Games Softball
Tournament and served as a mentor for the Mizzou Youth Experience. McGivern is a member of Mizzou's Navy ROTC
who will graduate in May with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. Following graduation, she plans to serve in
the military. In the classroom, McGivern has been named to the 2021 and 2022 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll and
the 2019-20 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Vaughan has been a staple in the community during her five seasons with the Gamecocks. This spring, she spent time
at Carver-Lyon Elementary reading to and interacting with students during Read Across America Day. Vaughan has
worked with the local food bank, Harvest Hope, in packaging and handing out meals to those in need. She has
volunteered at the Claude W. Smith School, being a test patient for students to gain experience with bed side manners
and sonography skills. Vaughan has helped build houses with Habitat for Humanity, working on two different housing
projects, including repairing porches and installing insulation. She has also served as a mentor to students at Joseph
Keels Elementary. During Christmas, Vaughan takes the time to write cards to children who are in the hospital.

During her time on Rocky Top, West has spent her time away from the diamond volunteering with Big Brothers Big
Sisters and serving with Tennessee's Community Holiday Meal. She assisted with Tennessee Athletics' annual
VOLoween night, which includes trick-or-treating around the athletic complex, face painting and playing games with
children from the Knoxville community. West was also a member of UT's VOLeaders Academy, going on a service trip
this past summer to Rwanda. She is a two-time member of the Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll and a two-time
Easton/NFCA Scholar Athlete.

Cannon served as a volunteer on the Mission of Hope trip to the Dominican Republic over the 2022 winter break,
where they served food, painted houses and assisted with local projects. She has also been involved with SAAC and
AggiesCAN, the nation's largest student-athlete volunteer-run canned food drive.