ROZIER EARNS C-USA SPIRIT OF SERVICE AWARD

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IRVING, Texas - Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky today announced the 14 student-athletes that will receive the C-USA Winter Spirit of Service Award. The C-USA Spirit of Service Award is designed to recognize the community service efforts of the league's student-athletes, based upon significant community service, good academic standing and participation in their elected sport.

The Spirit of Service Award is presented three times throughout the season, with today's honorees representing Conference USA's winter sports: men's and women's basketball, women's swimming and diving, and men's and women's indoor track and field.

2015 C-USA Winter Spirit of Service Release

From Middle Tennessee, senior men's basketball student-athlete Jacquez Rozier was named the C-USA Spirit of Service Award winner.

Rozier was nominated to the 2015 Allstate Good Works Team and now earns a Spirit of Service award. Rozier has actively shared his upbeat and contagious personality with the surrounding community, logging more than 50 hours of community service since his arrival at Middle Tennessee. He has put in countless volunteer hours helping children by teaming up with the Special Kids program, volunteering to go to local elementary schools and the Boys and Girls Clubs as well as volunteering his service at the Special Olympics.

The Waynesboro, Georgia, native turned in his best season yet on the court for the Blue Raiders, averaging career highs in all categories. Rozier is an organizational communications major and became the 38th consecutive Blue Raider men's basketball player that has exhausted their eligibility to graduate.

The Blue Raider recorded 98 wins in his four years at Middle Tennessee; the most of any class in program history.