The Southeastern Conference announced on Apr. 30 that Tennessee student-athletes Allison Buemi and Nick Stone have been selected as the university’s recipients of the 2025-26 Brad Davis Community Service Award.
These awards recognize one male and one female student-athlete from each of the SEC’s member institutions for their commitment to community service. Buemi, who competes in women’s track and field/cross country, and Stone, a men’s diving athlete, will each receive a $7,500 post-graduate scholarship provided by the conference. Both are now nominees for the overall Male and Female Brad Davis Community Service Leaders of the Year award, which will be announced in May.
The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship is named after former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis, who served with the conference from 1988 until his passing from cancer in March 2006.
Buemi has demonstrated dedication to both academics and service during her time at Tennessee. She is set to graduate with a degree in kinesiology and plans to pursue graduate studies in physical therapy. Her academic achievements include being named five times to the SEC Academic Honor Roll and six times to the University of Tennessee Dean’s List. In addition to over 60 hours of community service through programs like Leadership Knoxville Scholars Capstone, Little Chefs Big Change, Run Your City Knoxville chapter, and VOLoween events for staff families, she has also completed more than 400 hours of professional experience through internships at D1 Physical Therapy and Plano Orthopedic and Sports Medicine. Her leadership activities include participation in VOLeaders Academy’s cohort culminating with a cultural immersion trip to Brazil.
Stone has also made significant contributions through volunteer work both locally in Knoxville—supporting organizations such as Knox Area Rescue Ministries (KARM), Project LIVE (which helps adults over age sixty live independently), Annoor Academy, New Hopewell Community School—and abroad via VOLeaders Academy’s sports-based initiatives in South Africa and Botswana. He serves as Co-President on Tennessee’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee while pursuing a degree in sport management; he is also recognized as a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection. Athletically, Stone earned top-10 finishes at this year’s SEC Championships including fifth place on platform diving; he was previously named SEC Freshman Diver of the Year.
Other recipients across schools were listed for both male and female categories representing various sports disciplines throughout all sixteen member institutions.
