For the third consecutive season, Ole Miss forward Jaemyn Brakefield has been selected to the Southeastern Conference Community Service Team, the league office announced on Thursday. The senior has earned the honor while at Ole Miss in 2023, 2024, and now 2025.
A highly active member of the Oxford community during his four years at Ole Miss, Brakefield continues to serve the community in as many ways possible outside of his time as a gradate student and key contributor for the men’s basketball team. He was a part of the Ashley Homestore Hope to Dream event where he helped provide 50 bed sets to children in Tunica, Quitman, and Lafayette Counties. Brakefield has helped increase support in literacy throughout the state of Mississippi with ‘Reading With the Rebels’, an annual event where student-athletes visit and read to local elementary schools. He has also worked with the Willie Price Lab School for their Spirit Day, playing games and spending time around their students leading into their homecoming events.
Brakefield has partnered with CASA of North Mississippi for their Superhero 5K run to help raise money to fund events and initiatives that take place for the organization throughout the year. He also worked with the men’s basketball team in CASA’s Adopt-A-Child, where he helped in providing gifts during the Christmas holiday for six foster children, while the team as a whole adopted two boys to sponsor gifts for as well, which Brakefield helped with.
He has been a regular participant with the ‘Feed the Sip’ project, a food sustainability event within the Stronger Together MS Initiative, where he volunteers to assist children in the collection and donation of non-perishable food items that benefit elementary students in the Tunica and Quitman counties. He helped with the collection of over 14,000 food items. Brakefield has also been an active participant in ‘Adopt a Basket’ where the athletics department donates over 100 Thanksgiving baskets to families in need throughout the Lafayette-Oxford-University community.
