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Sawchuk Named to 2024 SEC Football Community Service Team
December 05, 2024 | Football
NORMAN — University of Oklahoma running back Gavin Sawchuk has been named to the 2024 SEC Football Community Service Team, the conference office announced Thursday.
The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 22 league-sponsored sports, looking to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to the community through superior service efforts.
Sawchuk, who was also a member of the 2024 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy, has donated his time during the summer, over spring breaks and during bye weeks to help improve not only the local Norman and Oklahoma City-area community, but also communities around the world from Hawai'i to South Africa.
A redshirt sophomore and finance major from Littleton, Colo., Sawchuk was part of a group that made a service trip to Hawai'i during 2024 spring break, helping clean up and provide supplies for the Maui and Lahaina communities damaged by last year's wildfires. He and teammates cleaned the Lahaina Luna baseball field, unloaded and organized three semi-tractor trailers of supplies, clothes and food for the people of Maui, served at Citizens Church mentoring and encouraging children who lost their homes in the fires, and volunteered at the Honolulu Boys and Girls Club.
During OU's 2024 October bye week, Sawchuk and his teammates worked with City Serve Oklahoma packing bags of supplies to deliver to area foster families. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Sawchuk helped pack more than 40,000 meals to be sent to people in need in Haiti. During the 2023 open week, Sawchuk and his teammates worked with 1-1-1 Project Bunk Bed to build more than 325 beds that were set to be distributed to children involved in child welfare throughout the state of Oklahoma.
Last summer, Sawchuk traveled to South Africa to improve the communities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, serving at Capella House in Cape Town, a public school with a large at-risk demographic, by removing trash and debris from the grounds. In Johannesburg, he served at Onthatile, a ministry for foster and adoptive children, helping clear debris for a new home to be built on the property.
Sawchuk also served at The Bridge Impact Center for youth and young adults in Oklahoma City, cleaning up the grounds and painting the building, and helped work on the community garden and with the beautification of two miles of area along Martin Luther King Ave. During OU's 2022 open week, Sawchuk delivered meals to more than 50 local residents through Meals on Wheels and helped paint a fence and build a playhouse for a single-mother family placed in a new home via Habitat for Humanity. Additionally, Sawchuk helped organize and coordinate the Ignite concert and ministry night through Ignite Church in Norman, which was attended by more than 3,000 people on the OU campus.
On the field, Sawchuk has played in 22 career games and started 10, rushing for 910 yards and 10 touchdowns on 163 carries. His 744 rushing yards and 120 carries in 2023 led the team, and his nine rushing TDs were the most among OU running backs. He rushed for more than 100 yards in each of the last five games last season and has six career 100-yard rushing performances.
2024 SEC Football Community Service Team
Tim Keenan III (DL) – Alabama
Taylen Green (QB) – Arkansas
Luke Deal (TE) – Auburn
Devin Moore (DB) – Florida
Dan Jackson (DB) – Georgia
Josh Kattus (TE) – Kentucky
Josh Williams (RB) – LSU
JJ Pegues (DT) – Ole Miss
Nick Barr-Mira (K) – Mississippi State
Brady Cook (QB) – Missouri
Gavin Sawchuk (RB) – Oklahoma
Alex Huntley (DT) – South Carolina
Bru McCoy (WR) – Tennessee
Liona Lefau (LB) – Texas
Albert Regis (DL) – Texas A&M
Julian Ashby (LS) – Vanderbilt
The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 22 league-sponsored sports, looking to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to the community through superior service efforts.
Sawchuk, who was also a member of the 2024 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and a semifinalist for the Wuerffel Trophy, has donated his time during the summer, over spring breaks and during bye weeks to help improve not only the local Norman and Oklahoma City-area community, but also communities around the world from Hawai'i to South Africa.
A redshirt sophomore and finance major from Littleton, Colo., Sawchuk was part of a group that made a service trip to Hawai'i during 2024 spring break, helping clean up and provide supplies for the Maui and Lahaina communities damaged by last year's wildfires. He and teammates cleaned the Lahaina Luna baseball field, unloaded and organized three semi-tractor trailers of supplies, clothes and food for the people of Maui, served at Citizens Church mentoring and encouraging children who lost their homes in the fires, and volunteered at the Honolulu Boys and Girls Club.
During OU's 2024 October bye week, Sawchuk and his teammates worked with City Serve Oklahoma packing bags of supplies to deliver to area foster families. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Sawchuk helped pack more than 40,000 meals to be sent to people in need in Haiti. During the 2023 open week, Sawchuk and his teammates worked with 1-1-1 Project Bunk Bed to build more than 325 beds that were set to be distributed to children involved in child welfare throughout the state of Oklahoma.
Last summer, Sawchuk traveled to South Africa to improve the communities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, serving at Capella House in Cape Town, a public school with a large at-risk demographic, by removing trash and debris from the grounds. In Johannesburg, he served at Onthatile, a ministry for foster and adoptive children, helping clear debris for a new home to be built on the property.
Sawchuk also served at The Bridge Impact Center for youth and young adults in Oklahoma City, cleaning up the grounds and painting the building, and helped work on the community garden and with the beautification of two miles of area along Martin Luther King Ave. During OU's 2022 open week, Sawchuk delivered meals to more than 50 local residents through Meals on Wheels and helped paint a fence and build a playhouse for a single-mother family placed in a new home via Habitat for Humanity. Additionally, Sawchuk helped organize and coordinate the Ignite concert and ministry night through Ignite Church in Norman, which was attended by more than 3,000 people on the OU campus.
On the field, Sawchuk has played in 22 career games and started 10, rushing for 910 yards and 10 touchdowns on 163 carries. His 744 rushing yards and 120 carries in 2023 led the team, and his nine rushing TDs were the most among OU running backs. He rushed for more than 100 yards in each of the last five games last season and has six career 100-yard rushing performances.
2024 SEC Football Community Service Team
Tim Keenan III (DL) – Alabama
Taylen Green (QB) – Arkansas
Luke Deal (TE) – Auburn
Devin Moore (DB) – Florida
Dan Jackson (DB) – Georgia
Josh Kattus (TE) – Kentucky
Josh Williams (RB) – LSU
JJ Pegues (DT) – Ole Miss
Nick Barr-Mira (K) – Mississippi State
Brady Cook (QB) – Missouri
Gavin Sawchuk (RB) – Oklahoma
Alex Huntley (DT) – South Carolina
Bru McCoy (WR) – Tennessee
Liona Lefau (LB) – Texas
Albert Regis (DL) – Texas A&M
Julian Ashby (LS) – Vanderbilt
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