Harrison Ray
2020 Mr. Commodore
SEC Tournament championship record three doubles (2019)
Dancing Dores team captain
Spearheaded community service efforts for baseball program
158 career appearances • 121 career starts • 37 career stolen bases
Nashville Tornado Relief
Made a wish come true for a local sixth grader that was tornado victim by visiting him at the Children’s hospital right after a night game and distributed requested items to tornado victims at Centennial Park.
Dancing Dores – Vanderbilt University Dance Marathon
Dancing Dores team captain – led and encouraged awareness and fundraising efforts for his team benefitting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the children it serves. Contributed to the overall total of $43,000.
Participated in the Big Event where teams interact with their assigned Miracle Family and present the fundraiser check to the Miracle Families.
Buena Vista Elementary
Led and coordinated a baseball clinic for second graders at Buena Vista. The team taught basic baseball skills and led a game of wiffle ball. This directly correlates with his overall goal of introducing the game of baseball to minority and underserved kids.
Bought Christmas gifts for team assigned first-grade students at Buena Vista on behalf of his team for the Athletics holiday party.
Led and encouraged his team to participate in the Trick or Treat with Greek and Student-Athletes event on campus. He and the team escorted kids from Buena Vista and Martha O’Bryan from Greek house to Greek house for a safe trick or treat experience. With his leadership, he was able to get the entire team to attend.
Participated in Field Day benefitting third and fourth graders at Buena Vista.
West Nashville Dream Center
Led and encouraged his team to participate in Mobile Food Ministries with the Dream Center. He and the team distributed fresh groceries to families in a North Nashville neighborhood.
Harris Hillman
Escorted students from Harris-Hillman (a public school serving students with multiple disabilities and dual diagnoses) around the shops, banks and businesses around 21st Ave for a safe trick or treating experience.
Read Me Month
Read to local MNPS elementary students.
Nia Dorsey
2020 Female Athlete of the Year
Played in all 83 games of her Commodore career
2019 SEC East Division Champion
2019 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2019 All-SEC Second Team
2019 All-Region Southeast Second Team
2019 CoSIDA All-District Team
2018 SEC Champion
2018 SEC Community Service Team
2018 All-SEC Second Team
2018 All-Southeast Region Second Team
2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2017 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2016 First Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
Dream Center
Dream Center is a non-profit the soccer team worked with to provide food to families in need. They were able to visit local neighborhoods in small groups to deliver the food, play with the children and hold conversations with the people that received the food.
“It was extremely humbling because food is something that all of us take for granted,” Dorsey said. “The families that received the food were always incredibly grateful and it allowed the team to develop a new perspective on certain aspects of life.”
Room In The Inn
Dorsey volunteered at Room in The Inn the last two years. She’d visit Room in The Inn for a few hours once a week during the spring semesters and would either help the community development department with administrative work or serve lunch to their homeless population.
“I absolutely loved volunteering at Room in The Inn because I was able to connect with kind-hearted people that are normally subject to a negative stigma,” she said. “Room in The Inn was full of love and I was able to build on new relationships week after week.”
Ke’Shawn Vaughn
2019 Offensive team captain
2018 SEC Newcomer of the Year
2018 All-SEC second team (The Associated Press)
Back-to-back seasons of more than 1,000 rushing yards
Ranks No. 5 all-time among Commodores with 2,259 rushing yards
Ranks No. 3 all-time among Commodores with 21 rushing touchdowns
Nine career 100+ rushing performances, fourth on team’s all-time list
Earned invites to the Reese’s Senior Bowl and NFL Scouting Combine
As a senior rushed for 1,028 yards and nine touchdowns
As a junior rushed for 1,244 yards (second most in team history) and 12 touchdowns
7.9 yards/rush was highest average in SEC among backs with 100+ carries
Nine games of at least 130 rushing yards in 24 career appearances
243 rushing yards, two touchdowns on 13 carries versus Baylor in Texas Bowl
Third-round selection of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020 NFL Draft
Mariella Fasoula
Volunteered at the Habitat for Humanity Restore in Nashville where she helped stock shelves and move furniture.
Vanderbilt’s Trick or Treat
Volunteered on Halloween at Vanderbilt’s Trick or Treat with the Greeks where they handed out candy and provided Nashville communities and children a fun, safe space for Halloween.
Miracle Child
Helped the Commodores sponsor Gabee, 14, who suffers from craniostynosis, raising money for her and the Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
John Augenstein
2020 GCAA First-Team All-American
2020 U.S. Open participant
2020 Masters participant
2019 U.S. Amateur Finalist
2019 GCAA All-America Scholar
2019 GCAA Third-Team All-American
2019 All-SEC First Team
2018 GCAA Honorable Mention All-American
2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2018 All-SEC Second Team
2017 GCAA Freshman All-American
2017 GCAA Honorable Mention All-American
2017 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2017 SEC Freshman of the Year
2017 SEC All-Freshman Team
Kristen Denk
Andre Mintze
2020 Vanderbilt Athletics Godfrey Dillard Courage Award
2019 Wuerffel Trophy and Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award nominee
Started nine games at outside linebacker in 2019
40 tackles (23 solo), 7.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 quarterback sacks playing all 12 games in 2019
54 tackles (30 solo), 11 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks in 34 career appearances
Dancing Dores – Vanderbilt University Dance Marathon
Created Dancing Dores fundraising program among Vanderbilt student-athletes in 2018 and captained football team’s Dance Marathon push to benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the children it serves. In the last two years, Dancing Dores has been a huge success, raising more than $43,000.
Christina Rosca
2019 All-American
2018 and 2019 First Team All-SEC
2017 and 2019 SEC All-Tournament Team
2017 SEC All-Freshman Team
Highest Singles Ranking – No. 8
Highest Doubles Ranking – No. 9
SEC Player of the Week (2/19/20)
Finished at No. 18 in the nation in the shortened 2020 season
Led the SEC as highest ranked singles player in 2020
Finished at No. 22 in the nation in doubles with partner Georgia Drummy
Upset the No. 1 doubles tandem in the nation at the 2019 ITA All-Americans
99 career singles wins
19-9 overall singles record in 2020
8-2 dual match singles record in 2020
Undefeated in SEC singles play (4-0) in 2020
Nine ranked victories in 2019-20
Clinched upset over No. 2 Ohio State (2/16/20)
2018 ITA Fall Championships Sportsmanship Award
2019 ITA Ohio Valley Region Player to Watch
Helped lead team to back-to-back SEC Regular Season and Tournament titles (2017,18)
Helped team advance to the NCAA Final Four as a freshman
Helped team to an NCAA Runner-Up finish as a sophomore
Helped team to an NCAA Quarterfinal during her junior campaign
Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree
Six-time Dean’s List honoree
Three-time ITA All-American
Will graduate with the Highest Honors in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt in May
Community Service
Attended 2018 Soles4Souls service trip to Morocco through Vanderbilt Athletics
SAAC Team representative
Be an Anchor Leadership Program representative
Vanderbilt Dance Marathon Team
Maria Bulanova
Cody Markel
2020 Vanderbilt Athletics Jim Robins Award recipient
2020 Vanderbilt Athletics Community Service Award recipient
2019 Bickerstaff-Pace Award recipient (NFF Middle Tennessee chapter award)
Nominated for NFF-College Football Hall of Fame William Campbell Trophy, Allstate AFCA FBS Good Works Team, Senior CLASS Award
Finalist for 2019 Vanderbilt Outstanding Senior Award
SEC Community Service Team representative
Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll
Appeared in 23 games, including four starts, as four-year offensive contributor
One career reception resulted in touchdown versus Tennessee
Turner’s Heroes
Markel Founded Turner’s Heroes non-profit organization in 2019 to honor classmate and fellow tight end Turner Cockrell. Turner’s Heroes aims to uplift pediatric cancer patients in conjunction with Cockrell’s parents. The organization reproduces superhero capes designed by pediatric patients, then brings them and their families together with Vanderbilt student-athletes for a day of fun and superhero-themed activities.
An 82-hour fundraiser for Turner’s Heroes held in conjunction with the Vanderbilt-LSU game raised more than $70,000 for discovery grant on pediatric cancer research
Abbey Carlson
2019 All-SEC first team
2017 SEC All-Freshman
2019 U.S. team member, Palmer Cup
2019 Mason Rudolph Championships medalist
73.46 scoring average for four-year career
Played 107 competitive rounds as Commodore
15 career top-20 individual finishes
Helped team to 2019 NCAA Championships
Played on three straight NCAA regional squads, including Auburn Regional champion in 2019
Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll
Licensed pilot
Engineering major
Vanderbilt University Rocket Club member
Billy Rowe
Nemo Sanchez
2019 SEC Community Service Team
2020 Miss Commodore
Represented SAAC at the NCAA meetings
Member of the Dean’s list
Four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll
2019-20 SAAC Vice President
Competed primarily in long distance freestyle
Community Service
Sanchez is a strong participant in Vanderbilt’s DIVE (Design as an Immersive Vanderbilt Experience) program where she partnered with a Nashville-area food waste initiative and helped market the organization as well as create a three-part documentary to bring awareness to food insecurity. Prior to her junior season, Sanchez travelled to Morocco through Vanderbilt’s Soles4Souls trip where she was able to help distribute shoes to schools around Morocco in her second trip with the University.
She is also an avid participant with Buena Vista Elementary where she has helped with the SAAC holiday party and field days. Supporting her passion for helping with food insecurities, Sanchez also is a member of Scrape your Plate Day (SPEARS) and Nashville Rescue Mission wher she helps serve meals.
Sanchez was featured as Vanderbilt University’s student-athlete of the month for January and named May’s student-athlete of the month for Vanderbilt Athletics.
Emily Mathewson
Mo Hasan