MSU's Joseph Selected To 2007 SEC Women's Tennis Community Service Team
The Rock Hill, S.C. , native garnered the honor for the second time in her collegiate career. In her sophomore year, she was selected to the SEC Good Works Team (renamed the Community Service Team this year).
Joseph has been involved with the Mississippi State M-Club for three years as well as doing community service outside of the M-Club. She has read for elementary kids, spoken at after-school programs, and represented MSU at the NCAA Leadership Conference in Florida this past May. Working with the M-Club, she has collected and donated clothes and other items to send to the gulf coast after Hurricane Katrina. Joseph also visited a Girl Scout troop at a local church to talk to them about leadership and working hard.
State's lone upperclassman, Joseph is a member of MSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She also is a member of the FCA Leadership team at MSU. Joseph has been named the Newsom Award recipient, annually given to the outstanding student-athlete in each MSU sport, for women's tennis in each of the past two years.
Joseph is accompanied by 11 other women's tennis players from around the SEC on the Community Service Team, including Shelley Godwin ( Alabama), Alex Haney ( Auburn), Natalie Frazier (Georgia ), Kim Coventry (Kentucky), Mimi Renaudin ( Mississippi), Christyn Lucas (South Carolina ), Ghizela Schutte (Tennessee) and Amanda Taylor (Vanderbilt).
The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams in all 20 sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight athletes from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.