Softball's Lexi Winters Named to SEC Community Service Team

LEXINGTON, Ky. – South Carolina softball player Lexi Winters has been named to the SEC Community Service Team, as announced by the conference on Tuesday, May 5

The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 22 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.

Winters, a graduate student from Lexington, South Carolina, has played in all 55 games this season, with most of those games coming behind the plate. She is hitting .235 with 16 RBIs and 10 doubles. She ranks third in the SEC with eight runners caught stealing. Last season she was named to the NFCA All-Region Second Team. She was also named to the College Sports Communicators All-America® Third Team.

In her two seasons with the Gamecocks, Winters has volunteered 25.5 hours with her hometown community. She has visited local elementary schools and spoken at their pep rally. She has organized a canned food donation drive for Gamecock Pantry and helped sort and count items. She helped organized a middle school health and hygiene donation drive. The last two years during Christmas time, she has help build bikes for local children.

She has volunteered for the MLK Day of Service and Cocky’s All Sports Camp where she taught children softball skills. On multiple occasions she has volunteered with the local Miracle League where she was partnered with a buddy to help children with mental and physical disabilities participate in baseball games.

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