BATON ROUGE — LSU’s Clayton Rotz and Tessa Teachman were named to the Southeastern Conference Golf Community Service Team announced the league on Monday.
The teams recognize the superior community service efforts of the league’s student-athletes. The Community Service Team consists of one student-athlete from each SEC institution, nominated by the school’s personnel, who have devoted themselves to community service.
Rotz is a senior from Chambersburg, Pa., and Teachman is a junior from Baton Rouge.
Both players were actively involved in organizing the golf portion of the Halloween BOOzar, playing games handing out candy and signing autographs while creating a trick-or-treat alternative for local children at the Carl Maddox Field House. The pair were also involved in “Thanksgiving with the Tigers” as golfers adopted an underprivileged children during the Thanksgiving holiday while providing gifts and serving the family a Thanksgiving meal.
Rotz and Teachman were both part of groups that visited the children’s ward of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital, spending time with the children there.
Rotz was part of the Christmas Toy Drive as the golf team adopted a child for the Christmas season raising money and providing the child with Christmas gifts.
Teachman, the women’s golf representative on the LSU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, volunteered for LSU Greening Day, helping to beautify the campus and made a year-long commitment to participate in the Volunteers in Public Schools Everybody Reads Program, pairing up with an underachieving elementary student for the school year.
Besides the golf community service team, the SEC also sponsors Community Service Teams for football, men’s and women’s basketball and the league’s men’s and women’s Olympic Sports.