{"id":458089,"date":"2026-02-06T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:19:08","slug":"florida-soccer-goalkeepers-at-sec-saac-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458089\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Soccer Goalkeepers at SEC SAAC Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A pair of Florida soccer goalkeepers \u2013 Jayden Emmanuel<\/a> and Paloma Pe\u00f1a<\/a> – are in Birmingham, Ala., this weekend for the annual Southeastern Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) meeting.
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\nThey are among 29 student-athletes who will use this opportunity to engage with campus leaders and conference office staff. Along with Student-Athlete Leadership Councils for football and men’s & women’s basketball, SAAC provides a conduit of communication to the conference office on issues related to student-athlete experience, wellness and playing rules.
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\nEmmanuel is a co-Director of 2025-26 Gators SAAC and Pe\u00f1a is the secretary. In July, Emmanuel took part in the SEC Leadership Council meeting held in Atlanta. She was a 2025-26 UF SAAC & Black Student-Athlete Council (BSAC) Executive Board member.
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\nThis past fall, Pe\u00f1a completed the GatorsLead Teams program and Emmanuel finished the same program in 2023.
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\nAgenda items for the SEC SAAC meeting include a conversation with SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, a presentation from guest speaker Lauren Sisler, updates from NCAA SAAC, a review of NCAA & SEC Governance Structure & Legislation and SEC Start Up opportunities, and a discussion on SAAC campus programming.
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\nThe 29 student-athletes scheduled to attend the meeting are:
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\n\tBarry Evans (Alabama Men’s Track & Field)
\n\tKaylie Crews (Alabama Women’s Track & Field)
\n\tCora Hair (Arkansas Soccer)
\n\tRomani Thurman (Arkansas Volleyball)
\n\tAna-Liese Torian (Auburn Women’s Track & Field)
\n\tJayden Emmanuel<\/a> (Florida Soccer)
\n\tPaloma Pe\u00f1a<\/a> (Florida Soccer)
\n\tVirginia Odom (Georgia Soccer)
\n\tKaroline Tuttle (Georgia Women’s Golf)
\n\tSinan Solmaz (Kentucky Men’s Soccer)
\n\tKatherine Truitt (Kentucky Women’s Soccer)
\n\tBraden Augustus (LSU Football)
\n\tAngelina Lee (LSU Volleyball)
\n\tBella Bonanno (Mississippi Volleyball)
\n\tGabe Scales (Mississippi Men’s Track & Field)
\n\tBubba Chapman (Missouri Men’s Golf)
\n\tSierra Dudley (Missouri Volleyball)
\n\tBrooklyn Holland (Oklahoma Rowing)
\n\tKailynn Jackson (Oklahoma Women’s Track & Field)
\n\tDavid Bucey (South Carolina Football)
\n\tLaiya Ebo (South Carolina Volleyball)
\n\tKeaton Mitchell (Tennessee Soccer)
\n\tNick Stone (Tennessee Men’s Swimming & Diving)
\n\tBrandon Baker (Texas Football)
\n\tVivian Johnson (Texas Beach Volleyball)
\n\tSydney Fuller (Texas A&M Soccer)
\n\tKyle Garvis (Texas A&M Football)
\n\tBrady Bliven (Vanderbilt Cross Country)
\n\tElli Kinney (Vanderbilt Volleyball) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A pair of Florida soccer goalkeepers \u2013 Jayden Emmanuel and Paloma Pe\u00f1a – are in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-458089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}