Naves lands on the SEC Volleyball Community Service Team for the second consecutive year. | Georgia Bulldogs
Naves lands on the SEC Volleyball Community Service Team for the second consecutive year. | Georgia Bulldogs
Sage Naves, a senior middle blocker for the University of Georgia volleyball team, was selected for the 2021 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Volleyball Community Service Team.
This is the second consecutive year the Agoura Hills, California, native earned the accolade, the Bulldogs reported in a release.
"Sage does an amazing job each day of thinking of others before herself," head coach Tom Black said in the release. "This award is a great recognition of that and the impact she continually has to make things better."
The SEC team honors a student-athlete from each institution who goes above and beyond with community service, the Bulldogs reported.
The 6-foot-2-inch fifth-year Naves volunteers with iServe Ministries, assisting the Jefferson nonprofit with the distribution of groceries to families in need in Clarke County, the Bulldogs reported. Naves also volunteers with the UGA Special Olympics and Boys and Girls Club of Athens, as well as participated in a mission trip to Uganda in 2017.
Naves appeared in 23 matches and 85 sets in the 2021 season, the Bulldogs reported. During that season, she registered 135 kills and 83 total blocks during the 2021 season, matching her career-high of 13 kills in the last game of the season against Louisiana State University. She also boasts a program- and career-best 11 blocks against Mississippi State University.
Naves is among the cadre of volleyball players on the UGA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was inducted to the UGA Leadership Education and Development program in 2019, the Bulldogs reported. The international affairs major is also on the SEC academic honor roll and dean's list.
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