LAFAYETTE - Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball student-athlete Sylvana Okde has been named a recipient of the UL Dean of Community Service Excellence in Service Award.
Okde, a junior from Houston, Texas, has served as a representative to the UL Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for three years and served as Vice President in 2014-15 and most recently as President in 2015-16. She has also served on the Community Service Committee to the Sun Belt Conference SAAC. As a part of UL SAAC, Okde has coordinated numerous project including Reading in Red, local hospital visits, shoe drives, canned food drives, and donation drives for the Faith House and the American Heart Association.