Erica Woods, the Bermuda women’s collegiate basketball player, put another feather in her cap after receiving a second straight Conference USA Winter Spirit of Service Award this week.

The Marshall University guard was honoured for significant community service, good academic standing and athleticism on the basketball court. “It is definitely an honour,” said Woods, who was one of nine women’s basketball players to receive the award.

She visited and spent time with patients and veterans at the Huntington Medical Centre in Virginia and participated in a cancer awareness event. She also spent time with children at the Boys and Girls Club in El Paso, Texas, before the start of the Conference USA Championship.

“I love volunteering and giving back to the community,” she said. “And whenever I have an opportunity to do so, I embrace it.”

The mother of one has a 3.7 GPA and a bachelor’s degree in Sports Management and Marketing and is working on her master’s degree in Adult Technical Education.

Woods, who has volunteered her services for the Upward Future Stars basketball programme, scored 116 points in 27 appearances for Marshall during 2013-14 and averaged 4.3 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. She also had the second-most steals with 30, second-best record from the free throw line and the third-most assists for her team.

The St George’s resident was also named on the Conference USA Commissioner’s 2013-14 Honour Roll last week.

Marshall completed last season with an overall 11-20 record, going 3-13 in conference play.

Woods and her team-mates made history by becoming the lowest seed, at sixteenth, to win a conference tournament game in women’s Division I basketball when they toppled ninth-ranked Florida Atlantic 80-73 at last month’s Conference USA Championship in Texas.

Woods, 22, scored four points and grabbed two rebounds during her team’s historic feat. Marshall bowed out of the tournament in the second round after losing to the University of Alabama-Birmingham.