BURLINGTON, Ont. - Heavlyn Sekyere (Dundalk, ON/) has been named the OUA Community Service Award winner for the 2025 women's rugby season.  

The third-year life sciences major is a very prominent member of the campus community at the University of Waterloo through not only her volunteerism, but the extensive ways she engages with the community. 

Sekyere is a member of various campus clubs such as the Black Association for Student Expression (BASE), which facilitates mentorship, outreach, and cultural engagement of Black people and Black culture. She is also a member of the Athletics Alliance, which advocates for and establishes systemic changes for the Waterloo Black, Indigenous, and racialized community. 

She volunteers as a guest speaker for Adulting 101, an outreach program that takes place in local high schools and aims to help ease the transition from high school to post-secondary education. 

Sekyere is a founding member of The Pencil Project, which compiles and publishes the successes of first-generation immigrants from Grey-Bruce County. This is a project founded with the hopes of creating a sense of unity and inclusion for the larger community. 

She is also a co-captain for the Women's Rugby team, and co-manager of the social media team. On the pitch, she scored two tries this season and accumulated 22 successful poaches over six games. Her 94% tackle completion rate was the highest on the team.

This is the second consecutive year a Warriors student-athlete has been awarded this honour, following Raven Shulist's (Grafton, ON/) win last year.