NEW ORLEANS — Every year, the American Football Coaches Association selects their Good Works team, which recognizes college football athletes for their unwavering commitment to community service and their good works off the field.
Over 130 college football players applied to make the squad, but only 22 players across the country make this team.
Michigan running back Blake Corum is the captain of the squad. He held a football camp at East Kentwood back in the summer.
A GVSU football player also joined the team - Colton Hyble, who volunteers a lot of his time for All Good Sports in Grand Rapids. It is an organization that helps develop young men through sports.
The Lakers senior was showcased on national TV down in New Orleans during the Sugar Bowl Monday night and he's overjoyed to join the prestigious group.
"It just feels like an incredible honor," Hyble said. "I didn't even think I would be in this group but to be selected is just incredible. This is just the beginning. This is the first quarter of our lives. All of us have reached these really cool points in our lives where we are being recognized for such a high honor, but just to see we have three more quarters of our lives to go. We've got so much more to do. Ideally, this is the platform that launches us to the next step."
The work continued down in the Big Easy for Hyble. He helped put on a football camp at the New Orleans Saints facility through the Son of a Saint organization to help kids through sports who had lost their parents.
The sixth-year senior is on the student-athlete advisory committee. He also volunteers his time at ICCF and a local Grand Rapids church.
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