Brooke Blankenship Named to SEC Community Service Team

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – South Carolina softball player Brooke Blankenship has been named to the SEC Community Service Team, as announced by the conference on Tuesday, May 6.

The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 21 league sponsored sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.

Blankenship, a senior from Hudson, Florida, has played in 51 games as Carolina’s shortstop. She is hitting .277with 31 RBIs and 28 runs scored. She has eight sacrifice flies on the season, third most in the country and second all-time in Carolina history. Last season she was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. She is a two-time NFCA All-Scholar honoree. She was named to the SEC First-Year/Freshman Academic Honor Roll in 2023 and the Spring Academic Honor Roll in 2024.

In her three years with the Gamecocks, Blankenship has spent 25 hours volunteering around the city of Columbia, spending a majority of that time with youth centered organizations. Brooke has been involved in the team’s pen pal program with Carolina Spring Elementary and spent a school day with her pen pal to provide further friendship and mentorship to her pal. She has spread her love of sport by working  with the Miracle League Baseball Game, helping children with mental and physical disabilities experience the joy of baseball. She has worked Cocky’s All Sports Camp on MLK day each of the last two years.

Blankenship has twice volunteered with Read Across America. She sorted donations for the Toys For Tots program and volunteered at the Junior Gamecock Club Halloween Party. Brooke helped on two home-building projects with the Habitat for Humanity. She packaged food at the Harvest Hope Food Bank during  November’s Week of Giving. She also assisted with South Carolina’s SAAC Thanksgiving Donation Drive, helping to donate non-perishable food to the Gamecock Pantry.

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