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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-24-2011, 07:55 AM:

It's good to see our players doing great things off the field.

The carnage lay before Jacob Lewellen like a bad dream.

Joplin, Mo., a once modest-sized town on the western border of the state, had been ravaged by one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history. Where houses once stood, rubble now lay. Fifty-year-old trees were snapped, splintered and toppled as if they were toothpicks.

So what was Lewellen, a junior defensive end on the Kentucky football team with no ties to the town, doing in Joplin? He was doing the only thing he knows how to do: helping others in need.

"Getting involved with the community is just one of those things that has kind of opened my eyes," Lewellen said. "It allows the community to see us players in a different light. It's one thing to give back because I get all the opportunities being a college athlete, but to give back what precious time you have is important because people need it."

Lewellen's philanthropy efforts haven't gone unnoticed as he was recently announced as a nominee for the prestigious Allstate American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team, widely considered to be college football's premier community service award.

"To give back is more than how it makes me feel; it's getting to see the smiles on those other people's faces or getting to experience it with your teammates and other athletes on campus," Lewellen said. "That's how you grow as a team, and when you grow as a team in the community it just makes sports and athletics that much more fun to be around."

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Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 07-24-2011, 12:48 PM:

it gives me a good feeling in side to know that we have players on our team with that kind of chracter.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-24-2011, 07:26 PM:

Isn't it neat to have players of the caliber of Lewellen. You read about all the thugs in the SEC and elsewhere and it makes our guys look that much better even though our record isn't the best.