BIRMINGHAM – Abigail Ahrens from the women’s swimming & diving team and Kenner Taylor from the men’s tennis team were named Texas A&M’s winners of the female and male Brad Davis Community Service Award Winners, the SEC announced Thursday.
Ahrens and Taylor, along with female and male representatives from the other 13 SEC schools, will each receive a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship provided by the SEC.
The pair are nominees for the Male and Female Brad Davis Community Service Leaders of the Year, which will be announced later in May where each winner will receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship, provided by the SEC.
Ahrens has excelled in balancing swimming and school while dedicating more than 80 hours of service to the local Bryan-College Station community. She has spent time reading to and with elementary school students with ReV’ved Up to Read and been a leader with A&M’s AggiesCAN and The Big Event initiatives, while helping with a number of other organizations and events locally. She is an active member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and served as the 2023 director of Traditions Night after taking on the role of assistant director for the event in 2022. The Kingwood, Texas, native has earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention distinction and CSC Academic All-District Team accolades, while also being named to the AD and SEC Honor Rolls. In the pool, Ahrens clocked career-best times in the 100 back, 200 back and 400 IM at SEC Championships, posting a pair of top-11 finishes to help A&M earn a third-place finish before closing out her collegiate career at NCAA Championships, competing in the 100 back, 200 back and 200 IM.
Taylor, a Houston native, is deliberately involved in numerous extracurricular projects including volunteering for 12 hours with Pathways for Little Feet as a logistics coordinator to support its harvest fundraiser. Along with serving his community locally, Taylor has also travelled globally to help those in need. The graduate student was a part of Texas A&M Athletics’ initiative “Mission of Hope”. This mission assists communities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Taylor helped with the youth programs, small construction projects and community evangelism. He also volunteered with the Grace Anderson Home Team and spoke to the Caldwell Middle School Fellowship of Christian Athletes. For his commitment to the community, Taylor was recently named to the SEC Community Service Team for the third-straight year.
The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship is named after former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis, who succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner.
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