BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Skip Donald and Olivia Peoples were named to the 2024 SEC Swimming and Diving Community Service Teams, the conference announced Tuesday morning. The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 21 league sponsored sports, highlighting athletes from each school who give back to their community in superior service efforts.
Majoring in the medical field, Peoples has totaled over 140 hours as a Volunteer Medical Assistant at Ageless Medical Solutions where she does various tasks for the nursing staff in their day-to-day operations to improve the quality of patient care. She has put her art graduate degree to practice as well, having spent over 80 hours cast painting at UF Health OSMI.
Donald has worked with the Brandon Ling Memorial Sports camp, where he played soccer, basketball, volleyball and football with kids who have cancer, have survived cancer, or is a sibling of a cancer patient. During the fall, he helped with the setup for Abiding Savior Lutheran Church’s annual Pumpkin Patch, which serves as the main fundraiser for the church’s youth group each year. Most recently, Donald wrapped presents at the Gator Tracks Wrapping Party. Gator Tracks begins to collect shoes from student-athletes, staff, coaches and administration from the UAA, socks and monetary donations and when everything is collected, the annual wrapping party is held to wrap and organize as many as 500 pairs of shoes.
Donald, Peoples and the rest of the No. 4/3 Florida men’s and women’s swimming and diving team are competing in the SEC Championships this week. Time trials are today at 11:00 AM ET with men’s 3-meter prelims following at 12:00 PM ET. The 200 medley relay and 800 free relays teams compete in the finals session at 6:00 PM, along with the women’s diving team event.
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