The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday announced the Community Service Team for the sport of football, prior to the SEC Championship Game to be played on Saturday, December 5, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
Video courtesy of Nikko Tan, WUFT News.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Redshirt junior running back Mark Herndon was named to the Southeastern Conference Community Service Team on Wednesday, the league office announced.
Herndon is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll. He has won the team's Gene Elleson Community Service Award for each of the last two seasons (2013 and 2014). Herndon volunteers with Climb For Cancer and the Gator Move Program, which brings over 90 children with cancer to the University of Florida campus to participate in a student-athlete-led sports camp.
The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 21 league-sponsored sports, looking to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to his community through superior service efforts.
The complete 2015 SEC Football Community Service Team is as follows:
- Alabama - Reggie Ragland
- Arkansas - Deatrich Wise, Jr.
- Auburn - Jonathan Wallace
- Florida - Mark Herndon
- Georgia - Malcolm Mitchell
- Kentucky - Landon Foster
- LSU - Jamie Keehn
- Ole Miss - Evan Engram
- Mississippi State - Taveze Calhoun
- Missouri - Clarence Green
- South Carolina - Elliott Fry
- Tennessee - Joshua Dobbs
- Texas A&M - Conner McQueen
- Vanderbilt - Stephen Weatherly
