Amihere Named to SEC Community Service Team

 COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina junior Laeticia Amihere was named to the 2022 SEC Women’s Basketball Community Service Team, the league office announced today. It is her third appearance on the team in as many seasons.

Laeticia Amihere has taken on leadership roles in several service projects this season. In addition to volunteering at Transitions homeless shelter, she organized a Fall Basket Drive for student-athletes and Athletics Department staff to donate non-perishable food items, toiletries and other new or gently used fall essentials for the homeless community. She worked with Prisma Health Children’s Hospital to organize a Teddy Bear Toss at a women’s basketball game this season; and also distributed bears from the event to local schools and other organizations. Laeticia coordinated gathering and distributing Black History Month facts videos throughout February at men’s and women’s basketball games and on social media. She took part in the Athletic Department’s MLK Day of Service event, delivering meals to the homeless in downtown Columbia and organized events for a local women’s shelter in honor of Women’s History Month in March.

The No. 1/1 Gamecocks are in the final week of their regular season having already clinched at least a share of the SEC title for the sixth time in the last nine seasons. South Carolina will play at Texas A&M on Thu., Feb. 24, at 8:30 p.m. ET before closing out the regular season at Ole Miss on Sun., Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. ET. Both games will air on SEC Network.