Auburn’s Jordon Granger named to SEC Community Service Team
AUBURN, Ala. (auburntigers.com)– Auburn basketball senior forward Jordon Granger has been named to the 2016 SEC Men’s Basketball Community Service Team, the conference office announced Friday.
Granger is very active in community service. The St. Louis, Mo., native visits patients annually at the East Alabama Medical Center (Cancer Center and Pediatrics) and volunteers regularly with the Jason Dufner Foundation End Child Hunger Initiative by stuffing back packs of food for children in Lee County.
He participated in the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Beads of Courage project where he wore a bead in honor of a child with cancer and then wrote the child a note to encourage him and visited children at Camp Good Grief, a local grief camp for children who had recently lost a member of their immediate family to cancer.
Granger spoke to students at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lee County and assisted them with their homework while also volunteering with the Auburn United Methodist Church food pantry.
During Halloween, he posed for photos with fans and passed out candy at the City of Auburn’s annual Downtown Trick or Treat. Active in the FCA, Granger volunteered at the Auburn Christian Women’s Job Corp Banquet.
This marks the 18th year for the SEC Community Service Team for men’s basketball as well as for women’s basketball. All 21 league-sponsored sports have had a Community Service Team since 2004, with at‐large teams for men’s and women’s sports being chosen from 1999‐2003. The SEC began this concept with a football Community Service Team in 1994.
The 6-foot-8, 220-pound Granger is averaging 5.0 points and 2.3 rebounds this year while playing in all 29 games, starting 11. He recorded his first career double-double with both career-highs of 18 points and 11 rebounds in Auburn’s 84-81 win over Georgia on Feb. 24.
