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Mashack Earns Second Straight SEC Community Service Team Nod
March 06, 2025 | Men's Basketball
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – For the second consecutive season, Jahmai Mashack is the University of Tennessee's representative on the SEC Community Service Team for men's basketball.
This is the 27th year for the SEC Community Service Team for both men's and women's basketball. All but one—rowing is in its first year as an SEC sport—of the league's 22 sponsored sports have had a Community Service Team since 2004, with at-large teams for men's and women's sports being chosen from 1999-2003. The SEC began this concept with a football Community Service Team in 1994.
Mashack is the sixth player in program history to collect multiple SEC Community Service Team honors, joining Jon Higgins, C.J. Watson, Wayne Chism, Grant Williams and John Fulkerson. He is one of three men's basketball players leaguewide on the list both this year and last year, alongside Arkansas' Lawson Blake and Ole Miss' Jaemyn Brakefield.
A 2024-25 NACDA Allstate Good Works Team nominee, Mashack is extremely active with Second Harvest in Tennessee to help address the food scarcity crisis. He has personally provided food to over 3,500 people and aided with the fundraising of over $1 million.
In Nov. 2024, Mashack set up a virtual food drive through Second Harvest with the hope of raising $2,000 for 30 families, but the goal was surpassed within hours and eventually finished at $14,700. On Dec. 18, he helped distribute food from the money raised, providing 398 households with 21,335 pounds of food. He started another Second Harvest food drive earlier this month with a $7,900 goal and it was over $36,000 within two days.
A native of Fontana, Calif., Mashack and his family also regularly feed members of the homeless community in his native Los Angeles area.
Mashack is the chair of the 2024-25 SEC Men's Basketball Leadership Council, as voted by his peers. This is his third straight year on the committee and he served as the vice chair in 2023-24. For the second year in a row, Mashack is the SEC's representative on the NCAA Men's Basketball Oversight Committee (MBOC) Student-Athlete Engagement Group.
The senior guard, who graduated from Tennessee in December 2023 with a degree in psychology, is a member of both V.O.I.C.E., a black student-athlete council for community service, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes, through which he speaks at schools and churches. Mashack was also part of the VOLeaders Academy in 2022-23, a program that ended with him participating in a service and cultural emersion trip to the Philippines in July 2023.
To keep up with the University of Tennessee men's basketball team on social media, follow @Vol_Hoops on Instagram and X/Twitter, as well as /tennesseebasketball on Facebook.
2024-25 SEC MEN'S BASKETBALL COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM
Houston Mallette, Alabama
Lawson Blake, Arkansas
Chris Moore, Auburn
Bennett Anderson, Florida
Somto Cyril, Georgia
Andrew Carr, Kentucky
Daimion Collins, LSU
Jaemyn Brakefield, Ole Miss
Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
Caleb Grill, Missouri
Jalon Moore, Oklahoma
Jacobi Wright, South Carolina
Jahmai Mashack, Tennessee
Kadin Shedrick, Texas
Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M
JaQualon Roberts, Vanderbilt
This is the 27th year for the SEC Community Service Team for both men's and women's basketball. All but one—rowing is in its first year as an SEC sport—of the league's 22 sponsored sports have had a Community Service Team since 2004, with at-large teams for men's and women's sports being chosen from 1999-2003. The SEC began this concept with a football Community Service Team in 1994.
Mashack is the sixth player in program history to collect multiple SEC Community Service Team honors, joining Jon Higgins, C.J. Watson, Wayne Chism, Grant Williams and John Fulkerson. He is one of three men's basketball players leaguewide on the list both this year and last year, alongside Arkansas' Lawson Blake and Ole Miss' Jaemyn Brakefield.
A 2024-25 NACDA Allstate Good Works Team nominee, Mashack is extremely active with Second Harvest in Tennessee to help address the food scarcity crisis. He has personally provided food to over 3,500 people and aided with the fundraising of over $1 million.
In Nov. 2024, Mashack set up a virtual food drive through Second Harvest with the hope of raising $2,000 for 30 families, but the goal was surpassed within hours and eventually finished at $14,700. On Dec. 18, he helped distribute food from the money raised, providing 398 households with 21,335 pounds of food. He started another Second Harvest food drive earlier this month with a $7,900 goal and it was over $36,000 within two days.
A native of Fontana, Calif., Mashack and his family also regularly feed members of the homeless community in his native Los Angeles area.
Mashack is the chair of the 2024-25 SEC Men's Basketball Leadership Council, as voted by his peers. This is his third straight year on the committee and he served as the vice chair in 2023-24. For the second year in a row, Mashack is the SEC's representative on the NCAA Men's Basketball Oversight Committee (MBOC) Student-Athlete Engagement Group.
The senior guard, who graduated from Tennessee in December 2023 with a degree in psychology, is a member of both V.O.I.C.E., a black student-athlete council for community service, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes, through which he speaks at schools and churches. Mashack was also part of the VOLeaders Academy in 2022-23, a program that ended with him participating in a service and cultural emersion trip to the Philippines in July 2023.
To keep up with the University of Tennessee men's basketball team on social media, follow @Vol_Hoops on Instagram and X/Twitter, as well as /tennesseebasketball on Facebook.
2024-25 SEC MEN'S BASKETBALL COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM
Houston Mallette, Alabama
Lawson Blake, Arkansas
Chris Moore, Auburn
Bennett Anderson, Florida
Somto Cyril, Georgia
Andrew Carr, Kentucky
Daimion Collins, LSU
Jaemyn Brakefield, Ole Miss
Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
Caleb Grill, Missouri
Jalon Moore, Oklahoma
Jacobi Wright, South Carolina
Jahmai Mashack, Tennessee
Kadin Shedrick, Texas
Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M
JaQualon Roberts, Vanderbilt
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