May 21, 2015
Vanderbilt’s Sam Reilly and Janetra Gleaves were named to the SEC’s Community Service Teams on Thursday.
The conference presents a Community Service Team for each of its 21 league-sponsored sports as a way of highlighting a male and female athlete from each school who gives back to his or her community through superior service efforts.
Gleaves has donated a number of volunteer hours at Tap Reading for inner city children in the Nashville area. She has also volunteered with several school programs, including Mama Lere, a specialized preschool for the hearing impaired, and Susan Gray, a preschool focused on research and special needs children. She has participated in charities helping the homeless and underprivileged such as Rescue Mission, Feed the Children, Room in the Inn, and homeless shelters, and has worked with Mending Hearts women’s addiction center, Barefoot Republic, YMCA and the Lighthouse Christian Camp..
Reilly’s contributions to the Nashville area and the Vanderbilt community have been numerous. He is the founder and President of Coaching for Literacy: Vanderbilt; Has raised over $2,000 for Book’Em Nashville for CFL’s Assistant Coach Program; Volunteers with CFL two days a week at Preston Taylor Ministries after school program; Volunteers every week at Eakin Elementary to tutor a local 1st grader; Serves as the Community Service Chair of SAAC; Ran the SAAC Commodores Compete for a Cause and helped raised about $3,000 for the Nashville YWCA; and served as a community reader at Nashville’s Read-me-day.
For the complete list of SEC Community Service Team for cross country and track and field, click HERE.