NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday the male and female Brad Davis Community Service Award winners for each of its 16 member institutions, with student-athletes Graham Calton and Hannah Weissman recognized as Vanderbilt’s honorees.
Weissman was named to the SEC Women’s Swimming & Diving Community Service Team in February and was also a nominee for the Allstate NACDA Good Works Winter Team this semester. The recipient of the Dr. Jerry Reves Award at the department’s annual ceremony last week, she has worked with fellow student-athletes to promote engagement, community service and career development over the last two years in her role with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Weissman—a junior who hails from Maple Valley, Washington—has served as a volunteer with the Pediatric Emergency Department and been a camp counselor at the Center for Courageous Kids as well during her time in school.
During his time as a Commodore, Calton has volunteered multiple years at events hosted by the Special Olympics and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital in addition to operating and coaching at a local basketball clinic for Nashville Public Schools. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he has also participated at events for the Shriners Hospital for Children, Hope Lodge and Children’s Theatre of Nashville, while the member of the Vandy men’s basketball program has also contributed countless hours to research for projects run by the Warren Center for Neuroscience and Vanderbilt Department of Psychology and Human Development.
The school winners will each receive a $7,500 post-graduate scholarship provided by the SEC. School award winners are nominees for the male and female Community Service Leaders of the Year, to be announced later in May, with each receiving a $15,000 post-graduate scholarship provided by the SEC.
The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship is named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis. Davis 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.
