Swanson Earns IWLCA Community Awareness Award

NORTHBOROUGH, Ma. - Senior women's lacrosse player Claire Swanson has earned another award for her off the field efforts. Swanson has been named a 2020 IWLCA Community Awareness Award recipient.

Swanson has served her community in a variety of ways, both on and off the Tampa campus. She is a member of the Air Force ROTC and serves as a Cadet Wing Commander. In that role, she provides mentorship to over 200 cadets and also volunteers at recruiting events. Swanson is also a member of Radiant Church's Dream Team, where she volunteers as a greeter and leads a bible study group and also participated in a volunteer mission trip to Sri Lanka. She volunteered with Special Olympics Florida to assist with Opening Eyes, a program for disabled kids to receive in-depth eye evaluations and glasses for free, running tests to measure depth perception, verbalization of sightings, and vision testing of the athletes during the event.

On-campus, Swanson was extremely active in the lacrosse team's outreach to underprivileged children at local elementary schools, and with on-campus lacrosse clinics. She also volunteers in the Sports Communication office, assisting with game operations and managing social media efforts. Swanson, a senior majoring in advertising and public relations, is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and won the Freddy Solomon Community Service Award and the Melissa Vanderhall Spartan Cape Award for top-level performance in Athletics, Academics, and Community Service. The midfielder was named the 2020 Inside Lacrosse Division II Player of the Year, and was a 2019 IWLCA First Team All-American and Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year. Swanson appeared in 60 games over the course of her career and was a captain in 2019-20.

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