Ueda Named To SEC Women's Tennis Good Works Team
The SEC sponsors Good Works Teams in all 20 sponsored sports. The Good Works Team highlights athletes from each school who give back to their communities in superior service efforts.
The Saitama, Japan, native reads books to children at local elementary schools and helps with food and blood drives in the area. She also donates clothes to the Salvation Army and participates in trash pick-up on the highways. In addition, she lends a hand in the Bulldog Bash and Halloween Carnivals on campus each year.
The daughter of Asakiyo and Momoyo Ueda, she is majoring in microbiology and working on a minor in kinesiology. Currently with a 3.26 grade point average, she is set to graduate in December and hopes to start physical therapy school in the spring. Ueda is a member of the M-Club, a three-time member of the Academic Honor Roll, a two-time Dean's Scholar and President's Award winner. She has also served as the women's tennis student body representative all four of her years at MSU.