Temple University Athletics
Senior LB Amara Kamara
Kamara, AFCA Good Works Team to be Honored at Sugar Bowl
12.21.10 | Football
Owl Senior Headed to New Orleans
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Temple senior LB Amara Kamara (Newark, N.J.) and the other 21 football student-athletes named to the prestigious Allstate® AFCA Good Works Team will be honored at halftime of the Allstate® Sugar Bowl between Ohio State and Arkansas, which will be televised nationally on ESPN on Jan. 4, 2011.
Prior to the game, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® members will be invited to New Orleans to participate in a special community service project. The players will join a team of Allstate volunteers to help clean up various locations in the Lower Ninth Ward, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® consists of two 11-member teams, one that includes players competing in the NCAA® Football Bowl Subdivision (I-A) and the other a combined team representing the NCAA® Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA), Divisions II, III, and the NAIA. A program record 112 players were nominated for the 2010 award by sports information directors on behalf of their teams.
Kamara was a 2010 preseason third-team All-MAC by Phil Steele. He was the recipient of the 2010 Captains' Award and the 2010 Athole Jacobi Award for Outstanding Community Service.
A third-team All-MAC honoree in 2009 while helping the Owls to the co-MAC East championship, Kamara received the Athletic Department's 2010 Temple Teammates Award, given to student-athletes who have demonstrated leadership qualities in the area of community service, inspiring others to engage in similar selfless civic endeavors for the purpose of improving the quality of life for those in the local community, presented at the team banquet on Dec. 11. Additionally, Kamara accepted the 2010 T.E.A.M. Award, an acronym standing for Temple's Exceptional Acts for Mankind, for his team's exceptional community service efforts for the second consecutive year. The Temple team was also awarded the 2009 Robert P. Levy Community Service Award, presented by the Philadelphia Sports Congress.
The four-year starter had the most community service events during the 2009-10 academic year with 12. Kamara participated in the annual bone marrow donor drive, the Thanksgiving food drive, the Diamond Street clean-up, the EagleBank Bowl Boys' & Girls' Club visit, the One Child Saved campaign, Partnership Field Day, Owls for the Cure, Building Men Club, and the Shore Tour as well as numerous hospital visits and Ronald McDonald House visits. He was also a four-year member of football's Unity Council which serves as the leadership and the voice of the team.
Prior to the game, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® members will be invited to New Orleans to participate in a special community service project. The players will join a team of Allstate volunteers to help clean up various locations in the Lower Ninth Ward, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® consists of two 11-member teams, one that includes players competing in the NCAA® Football Bowl Subdivision (I-A) and the other a combined team representing the NCAA® Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA), Divisions II, III, and the NAIA. A program record 112 players were nominated for the 2010 award by sports information directors on behalf of their teams.
Kamara was a 2010 preseason third-team All-MAC by Phil Steele. He was the recipient of the 2010 Captains' Award and the 2010 Athole Jacobi Award for Outstanding Community Service.
A third-team All-MAC honoree in 2009 while helping the Owls to the co-MAC East championship, Kamara received the Athletic Department's 2010 Temple Teammates Award, given to student-athletes who have demonstrated leadership qualities in the area of community service, inspiring others to engage in similar selfless civic endeavors for the purpose of improving the quality of life for those in the local community, presented at the team banquet on Dec. 11. Additionally, Kamara accepted the 2010 T.E.A.M. Award, an acronym standing for Temple's Exceptional Acts for Mankind, for his team's exceptional community service efforts for the second consecutive year. The Temple team was also awarded the 2009 Robert P. Levy Community Service Award, presented by the Philadelphia Sports Congress.
The four-year starter had the most community service events during the 2009-10 academic year with 12. Kamara participated in the annual bone marrow donor drive, the Thanksgiving food drive, the Diamond Street clean-up, the EagleBank Bowl Boys' & Girls' Club visit, the One Child Saved campaign, Partnership Field Day, Owls for the Cure, Building Men Club, and the Shore Tour as well as numerous hospital visits and Ronald McDonald House visits. He was also a four-year member of football's Unity Council which serves as the leadership and the voice of the team.
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