NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chantal Jordan and Justin Harris were named as Vanderbilt’s winners of the Brad Davis SEC Community Service Award by the league office on Thursday.
Both will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship provided by the SEC and are now eligible to be named the male and female Community Service Leaders of the Year. The league’s Community Service Leaders of the Year will be announced later this month, with the individuals chosen for those honors set to earn a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship from the league.
The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship is named for former associate commissioner Brad Davis, who succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner.
A member of the Commodore swimming program the last four years, Jordan has served as a youth swim instructor for Swim America while also volunteering at both the Fifty Forward Retirement Center and Brookdale Senior Living. She has also helped package food, toiletries and other necessities for underserved and underprivileged Nashville communities as part of Feed the Children while serving as an executive board member for the Black Student Athlete Group and participating in the Pre-Nursing Society.
For her efforts, she was a member of the 2023 SEC Swimming & Diving Community Service Team.
Jordan was recently named a second-team Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar while also earning College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors as a senior. A medicine, health & society and psychology double major, she has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll three times and was on the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll her freshman year as well.
The Atlanta resident ranks fourth on the Commodores’ all-time performer list in the 50 free, finishing second on the squad in the event during the 2022-23 season with her performance at the SEC Championships in February. She also competed in the 100 free and 100 back at that meet.
Harris, a senior on Vandy’s football team, participated in multiple community service events at elementary and middle schools as part of the Dores Aligned program, while also aiding the elderly and feeding the homeless during his collegiate career. He was a three-year member of the Black Student Athlete Group—serving as the organization’s treasurer the last two years—and was selected a Delta Man of Distinction for his fundraising efforts at an another community service event.
A resident of Attalla, Alabama, Harris is majoring in economics with a minor in business and was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll on three occasions during his time with the Dores. He was also chosen the athletic department’s Student-Athlete of the Month near the end of his junior year.
The safety appeared in appeared in 24 games for the Commodores over the last four seasons, posting 16 tackles and one pass broken up. He saw action on four occasions as a senior, recording a pair of tackles in a 63-10 season-opening victory at Hawai’i as Vandy would go on to finish 5-7 highlighted by back-to-back SEC wins over Kentucky and Florida. Harris also was credited with a career-best three stops against the sixth-ranked Gators when he was a sophomore.
