AUBURN, Ala. – Sophomore Alexis Seiden of the Auburn equestrian team was named to the SEC Community Service Team, the league announced.
The Washington, D.C. product has been actively serving in the community over her two years on the Plains, serving for organizations such as Project Uplift and Storybrook Farms.
With Project Uplift, she and a fellow student-athlete hang out with a youth from the Auburn/Opelika area, acting as a mentor and friend. Through this relationship, Seiden has spent time with her student doing fun activities such as going to the movies, going on hikes, getting dinner and having ice cream together.
In addition, Seiden has spent many hours as a volunteer with Storybrook Farms, which is an organization that provides disadvantaged children learn through riding horses. Seiden assists by getting horses ready as well as bathing and grazing horses and cleaning stalls.
On top of her work with those organizations, Seiden and her teammates have opened car doors at local elementary schools as well as read to students throughout the school year. She also volunteers at the Food Bank of East Alabama as well as one back home in Washington, D.C.