Saunders Ramsey Named To SEC Baseball Good Works Team
May 25, 2016 | Baseball
It's the second consecutive year the Starkville, Miss., native has been named to the honor group, which recognizes athletes who give back to their community through superior service efforts.
Ramsey, a fifth-year senior, serves as team co-captain in 2005. He has been an active participant in a variety of church and civic endeavors. He was the keynote speaker for the Disciple Now Youth Rally at First Baptist Church in Louisville, Miss., and was the guest speaker at the student prayer breakfast at his alma mater, Starkville Academy.
Ramsey took part in an assortment of projects undertaken by Mississippi State University's M-Club for varsity athletics, assisting with the organization's city-wide Thanksgiving canned food drive and the Bully's Book Blitz reading campaign at Starkville's Ward-Stewart Elementary School. Ramsey, who represents the baseball bulldogs on MSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Council, has worked in Starkville's Habitat for Humanity organization and served as a volunteer instructor in MSU's Winter Youth Baseball Camps.
Also named to this year's SEC Baseball Good Works Team are Allen Rice (Alabama), Scott Hode (Arkansas), Karl Amonite (Auburn), Matt LaPorta (Florida), Will Startup (Georgia), Jesse Barber (Kentucky), Jordan Faircloth (LSU), Justin Brashear (University of Mississippi), Aaron Rawl (South Carolina), Chris Howell (Tennessee), and Jensen Lewis (Vanderbilt).
Ramsey has appeared in 69 games, notching seven wins and eight saves while compiling a 3.45 career earned run average. Earlier this month he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University.
