November 01, 2006
Texas A&M senior wide receiver Chad Schroeder has been named to the inaugural Big 12 Fall Sports ?Good Works? Team the conference announced Wednesday. Each school in the Big 12 selected a student-athlete for recognition who showed exemplary efforts in community service and academic standing while participating in football, volleyball, cross country or soccer.
Schroeder currently leads the Aggies in catches (31), receiving yards (475) and is tied for the team lead with three touchdown receptions. In 2005, Schroeder earned the nickname ?Mr. Touchdown? as he scored on his first five touches of the season. For his career, Schroeder has caught 63 balls for 1,086 yards and 11 touchdowns. To earn his title of a big play receiver, Schroeder has a career average of over 18 yards per catch and has scored a rushing touchdown on a wide receiver reverse. At the conclusion of spring practice, Schroeder was voted by his teammates to serve on head coach Dennis Franchione?™s Leadership Council.
Off the field, Schroeder has the same ?big play? ability. He not only serves as a leader of the Aggies?™ nationally ranked football team, but as a leader in the community as well. This summer Schroeder interned in the Texas A&M Athletic Department where he served as a chairman for several summer activities run by Aggie Athletes Involved. Aggie Athletes Involved is widely regarded as one of the leading community service organizations at Texas A&M University. Their annual activities include a coat drive, a toy drive, and most notably the ?Aggies Can? food drive which last year collected over 150,000 cans of food for local food banks.
Beginning this athletic year, the Big 12 Conference will announce 12-person ?Good Works? Teams for Fall sports (football, cross country, volleyball and soccer); Winter sports (men?™s and women?™s basketball, swimming and diving, gymnastics and wrestling) and Spring sports (golf, tennis, track & field, softball and baseball.)