May 14, 2009
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Due to her efforts around the Nashville community the last four years, Vanderbilt’s Mindy Skelton was recently named to this year’s Southeastern Conference Women’s Track and Field Community Service Team. The SEC sponsors a community service team for all league sponsored sports, highlighting an athlete from each school who gives back to her community in superior service efforts.
Over the past four years, Skelton has been involved in many service projects while balancing her time as a student-athlete. The Vanderbilt senior worked with the Young Life organization that reaches out to adolescents through volunteering, club meetings, and camps while building meaningful relationship with kids.
The Columbus, Ohio native served as a site leader for the Alternative Spring Break Program in Kyle, S.D. Skelton worked at the Lakota Sioux Indian Reservation tutoring kids and teaching lessons to youth in one of the nation’s poorest community’s in South Dakota. Later, Skelton went on another ASB trip to St. Louis where she cleaned houses for the elderly and tutored inner city kids.
Alternative Spring Break is partnered with Campus for Human Development in Nashville and is committed to providing enhanced services to the people of Nashville who are homeless. Skelton spent time caring for homeless men, delivering food, and providing company to homeless encampments around Nashville.
2009 SEC Track & Field Community Service Team
Courtenay Brown, Arkansas
Raevan Harris, Auburn
Shalondan Hollingshed, Georgia
Holly Kane, Tennessee
Hailey Neal, Florida
Nicole Rheinlander, South Carolina
Lauren Saucier, LSU
Mindy Skelton, Vanderbilt
Ashley Trimble, Kentucky
Elizabeth Wilson, Alabama
