SMU men’s basketball player Jonathan Wilfong was nominated for the 2017 Allstate National Association of Basketball Coaches Good Works Team. This award recognizes a select group of college basketball student-athletes who stand out for their charitable achievements and community involvement. The NABC Good Works Team is in its fifth year with a panel composed of former coaches, student athletes and media choose student-athletes who have made outstanding contributions in areas of volunteerism and civic involvement.
Senior Wilfong is from Memphis, Tennessee and co-founded Coaching for Literacy, an organization that helps fund literacy programs across the country. Coaching for Literacy increases awareness about the number of people in America who are functionally illiterate and the social problems that come with illiteracy.