UST's Greg Kaiser makes national Good Works Team

September 23, 1999
MIAC has four players on 11-man Good Works Team

The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) landed football players on the 1999 Good Works Team sponsored by the American Football Coaches Association. Just 11 players were honored from nearly 1,000 football-playing universities in Division I-AA, II, III and NAIA, with another 11 honored from Division I.

The 1999 honorees included St. Thomas senior quarterback Greg Kaiser of Mora; St. Olaf junior defensive back Aaron Douglas of Hutchinson; Bethel senior offensive lineman Chico Rowland of Minneapolis DeLaSalle; and Hamline senior defensive lineman Nathan Schneeberger of Edgerton, Wis. The honorees were chosen solely on exceptional community service work and not for their on-field achievements.

Kaiser, who has a 3.87 gpa, has been a volunteer youth baseball coach for several summers, an officer in the campus Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a volunteer tutor in the Economics department at St. Thomas, and participated in other community service projects with UST football teammates at St. Joseph's Home for Children in Minneapolis.

Douglas has been involved in a church youth group, FCA and volunteered at a juvenile detention center. Rowland has worked with Habitat for Humanity, a traveling church mission group as as a tutor with Twin Cities Outreach. Schneeberger has tutored at-risk or disadvantaged Native American youth and has spoken at several area high schools.

It's the third consecutive year the MIAC has had honorees -- the 11-man 1998 Good Works team included UST's Mark Warder and Bethel's Eric Runyan in 1998, and Augsburg's Ted Schultz in 1997.