Mark Stoops addresses being named honorary coach of Allstate AFCA Good Works Team

Kentucky‘s Mark Stoops has been named the honorary head coach of the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, UK Athletics announced Monday.

Stoops addressed the announcement at his weekly Monday luncheon, noting all his work with the UK Children’s Hospital as the driving force behind his charity, “Coaches for the Kids,” which has raised over $10 million since its inception in 2013.

“It is an honor to be the honorary coach of the Good Works Team. I’ve always just tried to do my part, put my head down and go to work. There’s enough to do to keep me extremely busy, but I also like giving back. I’ve attached myself to the UK Children’s Hospital really since day one,” Stoops said Monday. “It’s an honor for us to be a part of that and to help in any way we can.”

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In March of 2022, Stoops and his foundation donated $1.15 million to fund three separate projects that will benefit the UK Children’s Hospital.

It has founded an early suicide risk program that will aim to effectively identify individuals with suicide risk through screenings for patients at every visit, a home monitoring system for medically complex infants called LOCUS, and aiding in the purchase of a mobile clinic to treat patients for pediatric cardiology, hemophilia/blood disorders, high BMI and adolescent mental health in rural Kentucky.

Stoops becomes the fourth consecutive member of the Kentucky football program to be honored as a member of the Good Works Team, joining Landon Young (2019), Luke Fortner (2020) and Kenneth Horsey (2021), and is the 17th Wildcat to be named to the list since its inception in 1992.

Kentucky’s 17 all-time members is second in the SEC, trailing Georgia‘s 22. The two schools combine for 39 of the conference’s 82 all-time selections, the most in the list’s history.