The University of Mississippi Athletics
Capocaccia Named to SEC Soccer Community Service Team
1/5/2017 | Soccer
OXFORD, Miss. - Senior Melissa Capocaccia has been named to the 12th Annual SEC Soccer Community Service Team, the league office announced Thursday.
Each year, the SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 21 league sponsored sports. The team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.
See below for Capocaccia's contribution to the community over her four-year career as a Rebel.
Melissa Capocaccia
During her four years as a Rebel, senior Melissa Capocaccia has been a contributor to the community in Oxford, around Mississippi, and back home in Tennessee. With 100 plus hours spent in and around these communities, her time most spent as been with Camp Fly High at Madonna Learning Center in Germantown, Tennessee, where she has assisted students with disabilities. The Memphis native also took 20 hours away with the UM Big Event, where Ole Miss students connect with the Oxford/Lafayette community to say thank you and interact with those around. Also back in Tennessee, she's spent 19 hours at the Le Bonheur Outpatient Rehabilitation Services in Germantown, and also contributed 10 plus hours at The Mississippi State Veterans Home of Oxford. Capocaccia has been a contributor to the National Girls and Women in Sports Clinic over the last three years, spending 12 hours at that event. In Oxford, the senior has also interacted with local students on numerous occasions at Reading with the Rebels, and Walking Wednesday at Oxford Elementary School.
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