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posted 10-06-2011 07:55 PM
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Kentucky fans, a Wildcat needs your help!
UK defensive end Jacob Lewellen is on the ballot to be named captain of the 2011 Good Works Team selected by the Allstate Insurance Company and the American Football Coaches Association. Lewellen was named to the Good Works Team recently in honor of his outstanding community service.
Fans can vote weekly through Nov. 4. Cat fans, it’s up to you to vote for Jacob at this website, here. Vote Link
The Team Captain and his fellow award recipients will be invited to New Orleans to take part in a special volunteer project leading up to the 2012 Allstate Sugar Bowl.
Lewellen, a native of Louisville, Ky., has been very involved in community service projects during his Kentucky career, leading the team in volunteer hours with over 90 hours (and counting) in giving back to the community.
He is the most active in “Athletes in Action,” an international Christian sports ministry organization where he serves as a Leadership Team Member. With AIA he leads two weekly Bible studies on campus - one for freshman football team members and one for all upperclassmen on campus. He also mentors freshman football players on a weekly basis and has spent his last two spring breaks in mission work, traveling to Nicaragua in the spring of 2010 and speaking to a youth detention center in Dayton Beach, Fla., in 2011.
During the summer, Lewellen spearheaded a group of UK athletes and staff members to pack bags on the back patio at the Nutter Training Center to take to Joplin, Mo., after the town was devastated by a tornado in July. Lewellen also got his football teammates to donate money to the cause, and together, he, his dad and teammate Max Godby drove to Joplin to help.
The three men went to a church in Joplin where they delivered 100 bags filled with toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, hand sanitizer, folders, pens, pencils, paper and bibles.
Lewellen's work to organize the donations and drive personally, to the town is just one example of his off-field resume. Lewellen has also been a guest speaker at local elementary schools, met with local veterans and befriended a three-year-old cancer patient at Lexington's Hope Lodge.
“Thanks to Allstate and the AFCA for sponsoring this award,” Lewellen said. “I’m really honored and humbled, when I looked at the list of nominees and all the things they have done. Everybody on that (nominee) list is deserving of this award.”
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