Rose Tabbed to Women’s Golf SEC Community Service Team
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Kentucky women’s golfer Grace Rose was named to the Southeastern Conference Community Service Team by the league office on Thursday.
Rose has documented nearly 120 hours of community service during her career. She traveled to Ethiopia in the summer of 2016 as part of a UK Athletics service trip. In Ethiopia, Rose helped construct housing for widows, delivered beds and mattresses to lepers, served food to orphans, and delivered hygiene supplies to the imprisoned.
The junior from Nicholasville, Kentucky, is an annual participant in UK’s backpack program with God’s Pantry, filling backpacks with food supplies and delivering them to local elementary schools. She has also volunteered for Salvation Army bell ringing on multiple occasions during the holiday season to raise money for homeless families.
Among the other community work Rose has done for during her time at Kentucky:
- Volunteered at a meal-packing event at Grace Christian Church in Georgetown
- Helped with the UK Blanket Project in which all of UK’s student-athletes put together blankets and deliver them to sick children in the Children’s Hospital around the holidays
- Volunteered for the Louisiana flood relief drive
- Participated in Breakfast with Santa
- Volunteered at Shriners Hospital
On the course, Rose is enjoying her best season yet as a Wildcat. She’s currently second on the team with a 74.0 stroke average and is tied with junior Isabelle Johansson for the best stroke average of the spring season.
Since missing the first three events of the 2016-17 season, Rose has appeared in seven straight events and has been one of UK’s most consistent performers. She’s placed in the top 30 in four tournaments and won the dual match vs. Louisville with a score of even par. Last time on the course, at the SEC Championship, Rose fired a 2-under 214 – a career best – for a 17th-place finish.
The annual SEC Community Service Team recognizes the superior community service efforts of the league’s student-athletes. The SEC Community Service Team consists of one student-athlete from each SEC institution, as nominated by the school’s personnel. The SEC names a community service team for each of its 21 league-sponsored sports.
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