Central Michigan University Athletics
Keith Selected to AFCA Good Works Team
9/12/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
MOUNT PLEASANT Central Michigan University senior linebacker Red Keith (Franklin, Ga./Heard County HS) is one of 22 players nationwide named to the American Football Coaches Association’s Good Works Team.
The Good Works Team recognizes student-athletes for their dedication and commitment to community service. Eleven players from the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) are honored, while the AFCA also selects a second 11-man team consisting of 11 players representing the Football Championships Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), Divisions II and III and the NAIA.
Keith is the first CMU football player to be named to the AFCA Good Works Team.
Active both on campus and in the community, Keith has assumed leadership roles in a variety of community service initiatives. He served on CMU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Board, a panel that works with CMU Student-Athlete Academic Services and coordinates community service activities for student-athletes. Keith also volunteered last year with teammate Brian Brunner at a CMU Public Broadcasting Ready to Learn Workshop. Keith and Brunner spoke to and answered questions from parents and children 10 years old and younger, took part in activities with the families and read a book to the children.
Keith annually participates with fellow CMU student-athletes in a holiday canned food drive for the Isabella County chapter of the American Red Cross and volunteers with Michigan Special Olympics.
In his home state of Georgia, Keith has served as a guest speaker at a middle school and routinely visits with patients at a nursing home near his hometown.
On the playing field, Keith has started 38 consecutive games at linebacker for CMU. He has more career tackles (346) than any other active player in the Football Bowl Subdivision and has led the Chippewas in tackles each of his first three seasons. He was an All-Mid-American Conference first team selection after recording a career-high 127 tackles in 2006.
A mathematics major with a 3.25 grade-point average, Keith is a two-time Academic All-MAC honoree and was named to the 2005 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV second team.
The Good Works Team recognizes student-athletes for their dedication and commitment to community service. Eleven players from the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) are honored, while the AFCA also selects a second 11-man team consisting of 11 players representing the Football Championships Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA), Divisions II and III and the NAIA.
Keith is the first CMU football player to be named to the AFCA Good Works Team.
Active both on campus and in the community, Keith has assumed leadership roles in a variety of community service initiatives. He served on CMU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Board, a panel that works with CMU Student-Athlete Academic Services and coordinates community service activities for student-athletes. Keith also volunteered last year with teammate Brian Brunner at a CMU Public Broadcasting Ready to Learn Workshop. Keith and Brunner spoke to and answered questions from parents and children 10 years old and younger, took part in activities with the families and read a book to the children.
Keith annually participates with fellow CMU student-athletes in a holiday canned food drive for the Isabella County chapter of the American Red Cross and volunteers with Michigan Special Olympics.
In his home state of Georgia, Keith has served as a guest speaker at a middle school and routinely visits with patients at a nursing home near his hometown.
On the playing field, Keith has started 38 consecutive games at linebacker for CMU. He has more career tackles (346) than any other active player in the Football Bowl Subdivision and has led the Chippewas in tackles each of his first three seasons. He was an All-Mid-American Conference first team selection after recording a career-high 127 tackles in 2006.
A mathematics major with a 3.25 grade-point average, Keith is a two-time Academic All-MAC honoree and was named to the 2005 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV second team.
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