Dowdy and Leppelmeier Named to 2020 SEC Community Service Team

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky’s Tanner Dowdy and Molly Leppelmeier were named to the 2020 Southeastern Conference Community Service Team, the league announced this week for the sports of men’s and women’s track and field and cross country.
 
Dowdy, a recent UK graduate, has interned for the Special Olympics and represented the state at naturalization ceremonies to register new citizens to vote. He has volunteered with the Carnegie Center Art Night to assist in making food and cleaning the area to display local art and has completed at least 65 hours of community service while competing with both the track and field and cross country teams.
 
Dowdy was inducted into the Frank G. Ham Society of Character at Kentucky earlier this year. The Society of Character annually honors Wildcats who have shown an extraordinary commitment to academic excellence, athletic participation, personal development, career preparation and serving as a role model.
 
Leppelmeier, a rising junior, went on a service trip to Ethiopia in the summer of 2019 with UK Athletics along with several other student-athletes at UK. In addition to her trip to Ethiopia, Leppelmeier has volunteered her time at Jesus Prom, Help-Portrait, The Walk to End Alzheimer’s, Christmas Adopt a Child and donating Thanksgiving baskets. She also helped organize Special Olympics Kentucky where she and several of her teammates went to a track and field meet to help hand out awards to the participants.
 
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