BATON ROUGE — LSU junior basketball forward Paul Wolfert will be featured this week as the SEC Good Works Team Player of the Week on Jefferson-Pilot’s telecasts of the Arkansas at Alabama, LSU at Mississippi State, South Carolina at Alabama and Florida at LSU games.
The Burr Ridge, Ill., native is very involved in the school’s CHAMPS program, serving as vice-president of the Student Athletes Advisory Board. He has spoken to school assemblies at Greenville Elementary and Northdale Magnet Academy. He helped organize the “Halloween Boozar”, an annual event for kids to trick or treat with athletes, and the Christmas Drive for Toys.
Wolfert also participated in the Diabetes Walk and the team’s Christmas visit to Our Lady of the Lake children’s ward.
The Southeastern Conference sponsors Good Works teams for football, men and women’s basketball, men’s sports at-large and women’s sports at-large. Jefferson-Pilot highlights one member of the SEC Good Works Team for men’s basketball during each week of its men’s basketball telecasts. This marks the seventh year for the SEC Good Works team for men’s basketball.