AUBURN, Ala. – Junior defensive lineman Derrick Brown will represent Auburn on this year's SEC Community Service Team for football. The team, chosen by the league on Wednesday, looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.
Brown is a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient who was named to the 2018 Wuerffel Trophy Watch List and was also a nominee for the AFCA Allstate Good Works Team. He has represented Auburn the past two years at the SEC Student-Athlete Leadership Council for football and is the vice president of the school's Student-Athlete Advisory Council.
In May, Brown and a group of his Auburn teammates took part in a mission trip to the Dominican Republic where they worked with kids and helped build a house in the community.
"The biggest takeaway to me was how blessed we are," Brown said. "We live in a place that's got endless opportunity. These people in the Dominican Republic, they're living without anything and they're surviving and they are happy."
Earlier this month, Brown was chosen as a semifinalist for the second annual Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award, the first college football honor to focus primarily on a player's leadership.
Greg Ostendorf is a Senior Writer for AuburnTigers.com. Follow him on Twitter: @greg_ostendorf