DALLAS - Conference USA announced its Spring Spirit of Service Award winners Tuesday. The award honors student-athletes with significant community service endeavors, good academic standing and participation in their sport. The Spirit of Service award is presented three times throughout the season, with Tuesday's honorees representing baseball, men’s and women’s golf, women’s beach volleyball, outdoor track & field and men’s and women’s tennis.
2023 Spring Spirit of Service Award Recipients
Kaiyuree Moodley, Charlotte Women’s Golf, Sr.
Bailey Grossenbacher, FIU Softball, Sr.
Sara Berthiaume, Florida Atlantic Softball, Sr.
Dalton Davis, Louisiana Tech Baseball, Jr.
Jackson Galloway, MTSU Baseball, Sr.
Glenquioa Hardy, North Texas Track & Field, Sr.
Arayna Mickles, Rice Track & Field, So.
Sydney Clarke, UAB Women’s Tennis, Jr.
Pate Cathey, UTEP Softball, R-Sr.
David Harrison, UTSA Men's Golf, Sr.
Averi Cline, WKU Women’s Golf, Fr.
Charlotte senior Kaiyuree Moodley, an international studies major, has made a lasting impact in the community working more than 24 hours of service with the Jamil Niner Weekly Food Pantry. Moodley was also named to the 2021 Dean’s List and 2022 Chancellor’s List in her time at Charlotte. The senior from Johannesburg, South Africa, was selected as the 2022-23 Team Most Valuable Player while being the only Niner to play in all 10 tournaments and led the team with a 74.27 stroke average.
FIU senior Bailey Grossenbacher, a Dean’s List honoree in every term, completed event planning and social media internships in her junior and senior year while majoring in hospitality management and minoring in art. Grossenbacher has also been a recipient of the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll and Academic Medal. Additionally, she earned the Unsung Hero Award for her continued dedication to the FIU softball team.
Florida Atlantic senior Sara Berthiaume, a health science major, was very active in the community during her time at FAU, completing more than 275 hours of community service at eight different services. She boasts a 3.48 GPA, was named to the 2022 Fall Dean’s List and won the FAU Female Community Service Award. Berthiaume was also one of the best hitters in program history, finishing with a career batting average of .329, a slugging percentage that ranked her sixth all-time in school history and 144 career hits.
Louisiana Tech junior Dalton Davis made an impact in the community by volunteering at the Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center in which the young scholars were excited to have Davis come out and read to them weekly. He has also put his baseball skills to use by working with Buddy Ball, which helps demonstrate the fundamentals of the sport. Davis is a two-time All AD Honor Roll recipient for maintaining a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the winter and spring 2023 quarter. The junior infielder was named to the C-USA All-Tournament Team and is one of two players to start every game for the Bulldogs in 2023.
Middle Tennessee senior Jackson Galloway is an active member in the Murfreesboro community as he has partnered for the Special Olympic National Baseball Championship for three years, Read Across America in various elementary schools and worked youth baseball camps as a volunteer. Galloway boasts a 3.5 GPA and was a Dean’s List honoree in four semesters at MTSU as he plans to graduate in December 2023 with a degree in integrated studies and communications. The senior from Greenwood, Missouri, ended his season with a .341 batting average, .559 slugging percentage and an OPS of .940.
North Texas senior Glenquioa Hardy has participated in a number of community service efforts such as a visit to the Cumberland Youth Family Shelter to help set up and clean homes for unadopted teenagers in the Denton Community while also volunteering at UNT Freshman Move-In and the Adpot the Block for the UNT NPHC. Hardy posted an impressive 3.3 GPA while majoring in integrative studies and has placed her on the Dean’s List and C-USA Honor Roll multiple times throughout her career. The senior out of Mesquite, Texas, participated in Long Jump for the Mean Green and finished fifth overall in the indoor season and sixth in the outdoor season.
Rice sophomore Arayna Mickles boasts a 3.56 GPA while pursuing a degree in business and has been a recipient of the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal and the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll in 2021-22. Mickles serves in several community service efforts including the HISD College Career Readiness Panel, MLK Day Hermann Park Centennial Garden clean up and is an active contributor to SAAC. She recently placed fourth overall in the 400m at the 2023 C-USA Outdoor Championships and fifth in the 4x400m race in the indoor championships.
UAB junior Sydney Clarke showcased great involvement within the Birmingham community, racking up more than 75 service hours over the 2022-23 academic year. Clarke participated in more than seven different community service opportunities on top of being a student-athlete on the women’s tennis team and a key part of SAAC at UAB. While pursuing a degree in communication studies, she has been a part of the C-USA Academic Honor Roll in 2021 and 2022. Clarke finished the 2023 campaign with a team-high 34 overall victories including 20 doubles wins which marks the most at UAB since 2013.
UTEP redshirt senior Pate Cathey, an MA leadership studies major, is an active participant in the community of El Paso, posting over 130 hours of service since August. Cathey served on SAAC this semester as the Interim President, coordinating all meetings, E-Board meetings and led five new SAAC initiatives. She has been named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll five times, a C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal winner four times and has landed on the All-Academic Team the last three years. She is a pillar in the Miners middle infield, starting in every game in her final season with four home runs and over 140 putouts and assists.
UTSA senior David Harrison, the UTSA SAAC President, served in numerous community service efforts including outings CANtoberfest, Kinetic Kids, Pie in the Paseo and many more. Harrison was named to the 2023 CSC Academic All-District Team while also being honored as a four-time UTSA Honor Roll member, a President's List recipient and a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar. The senior from Trophy Club, Texas, was a four-year letterman who was a regular in the lineup and owned a 74.19 stroke average in 2022-23.
WKU freshman Averi Cline, who is pursuing a degree in sport psychology, completed more than 100 hours of community service during her first year in Bowling Green, earning WKU’s award for Female Community Outreach. She earned C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll honors and a Commissioner’s Academic Medal. Cline competed in 10 tournaments for WKU including a 27th-place finish in the C-USA Championships and had a low-18 hole score of 69 in her rookie campaign.