Alabama’s Orefice, Sheils Named Brad Davis Community Service Award Winners
5/2/2024 10:12:00 AM | Women's Tennis, Swimming & Diving
Crimson Tide women’s tennis player Sydney Orefice and men’s swimmer Trey Shiels are among 28 (14 men and 14 women) named to the SEC community service postgraduate award list
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama women's tennis player Sydney Orefice and men's swimmer Trey Sheils have been named Southeastern Conference 2024 Brad Davis Community Service Award Winners, the league office announced Thursday.
The Crimson Tide duo are two of 28 honorees (14 men and 14 women) who are now finalists for the Male and Female Brad Davis Community Service Leaders of the Year and will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship. The male and female Community Service Leaders of the Year, to be announced later in May, will each receive a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship.
The SEC Community Service Postgraduate Scholarship is named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis, who succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006.
Sydney Orefice | Women's Tennis
- Orefice spent approximately 83 hours doing community service projects to give back to the University of Alabama and the Tuscaloosa community
- Two-time server at the Soup Bowl of Tuscaloosa
- Five-time volunteer with Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter where she fostered animals
- Five-time helper with Between the Bars – a program that transcribes letters sent to and from prison
- Spent time writing letters to local elders in the community
- Served at University Place Elementary School during the school's Red Ribbon and attended the Red Ribbon Week discussion
- Participated in the Out of the Darkness Community walk, Alabama Athletics' Halloween Extravaganza and the RISE Center Holiday Event
- In addition to participating in the Dan Nielsen Memorial Cup sale, Orefice posted flyers to help promote the event which helped contribute to $7,000+ raised for Habitat for Humanity
- Helped create the sponsorship packets for the Parkinson's Awareness walk, where $2,586 was given to the Parkinson's Foundation
- Took part in Read Across America, a national day that strives for all children and youth in every community across the United States to celebrate reading
- Volunteered at university's wheelchair basketball tournament during this spring
Trey Sheils | Men's Swimming and Diving
- Sheil spent ample hours volunteering with Team IMPACT which is an organization that provides a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment for a child and their family to connect with a college athletic team and local campus community
- Participated in the Alabama Athletics' Halloween Extravaganza and the RISE Center Holiday Event
- Currently ranks sixth all-time at Alabama in the 100 breaststroke and tenth in the 200 breaststroke
- Clocked a season-best in the 100 breaststroke, earning eighth place at the SEC Championships
- Won the 100 breaststroke versus Kentucky
- Posted top-10 finishes in the 100 and 200 breaststroke, with a career-best in the 200 (1:56.11) at the Tennessee Invitational
- Won the 100 breaststroke during Alabama's win against Missouri
- Earned his first win of the season in the 100 breaststroke in the Tide's season opener against Delta State
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