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The University of Mississippi Athletics
JJ Pegues Named to SEC Community Service Team
12/5/2024 | Football
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ole Miss football senior defensive tackle JJ Pegues was selected to the Southeastern Conference Football Community Service Team, the league office announced on Thursday morning.
The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 22 league-sponsored sports, looking to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community through superior service efforts.
This is the second consecutive appearance on the SEC Community Service Team for Pegues, an Oxford native who has made a tremendous impact to the Oxford community and is an exemplary role model on and off the field.
Pegues is a member of the 2024 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and was a semifinalist for the Allstate Wuerffel Trophy, college football's most prestigious community service award. Pegues serves as the football team's representative on the Ole Miss Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and he is a member of the SEC Football Leadership Council.
Pegues hosted his own event in partnership with Allstate to adopt five local students to provide them with a holiday winter pack, which consisted of winter clothes and shoes. This was in addition to his Neighborhood Hero Back to School event, a day of fun with local school children that also served as a giveaway for school necessities each of the last two years.
Other community events Pegues has been part of include: the yearly Adopt-a-Basket program run by the Ole Miss athletics department, which donates more than 100 Thanksgiving baskets to local families; the yearly Feed the Sip program through the Stronger Together MS initiative, which has collected and donated more than 14,000 non-perishable food items to elementary students within Tunica and Quitman counties; Ole Miss' ongoing Reading with the Rebels program, which features student-athletes visiting local elementary schools to read to students to increase support for reading and literacy throughout the state of Mississippi; the local Boys and Girls Club after school programs; the local Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Back to School event that helps prepare foster students for the start of the school year; CASA's Adopt-a-Child program, which assists children during the holiday season; CASA's 5K Superhero Run fundraiser; the Tim Tebow Foundation's A Night to Shine event, which holds a community-wide prom for individuals with disabilities; former Rebel KD Hill's Back to School Bash, a fun event for local children ahead of the school year; assisting in the inaugural AJ Brown Foundation event hosted by the former Rebel and current NFL great; Ole Miss' water collection drive to assist residents of Jackson, Mississippi during the city's water crisis; and multiple cleanup and donation efforts to help communities throughout Mississippi affected by devasting tornadoes in the spring of 2023.
2024 SEC Football Community Service Team
Tim Keenan III, Alabama
Taylen Green, Arkansas
Luke Deal, Auburn
Devin Moore, Florida
Dan Jackson, Georgia
Josh Williams, LSU
Nick Barr-Mira, Mississippi State
Brady Cook, Missouri
Josh Kattus, Kentucky
JJ Pegues, Ole Miss
Gavin Sawchuk, Oklahoma
Alex Huntley, South Carolina
Bru McCoy, Tennessee
Liona Lefau, Texas
Albert Regis, Texas A&M
Julian Ashby, Vanderbilt
The SEC names a Community Service Team for each of its 22 league-sponsored sports, looking to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community through superior service efforts.
This is the second consecutive appearance on the SEC Community Service Team for Pegues, an Oxford native who has made a tremendous impact to the Oxford community and is an exemplary role model on and off the field.
Pegues is a member of the 2024 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and was a semifinalist for the Allstate Wuerffel Trophy, college football's most prestigious community service award. Pegues serves as the football team's representative on the Ole Miss Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and he is a member of the SEC Football Leadership Council.
Pegues hosted his own event in partnership with Allstate to adopt five local students to provide them with a holiday winter pack, which consisted of winter clothes and shoes. This was in addition to his Neighborhood Hero Back to School event, a day of fun with local school children that also served as a giveaway for school necessities each of the last two years.
Other community events Pegues has been part of include: the yearly Adopt-a-Basket program run by the Ole Miss athletics department, which donates more than 100 Thanksgiving baskets to local families; the yearly Feed the Sip program through the Stronger Together MS initiative, which has collected and donated more than 14,000 non-perishable food items to elementary students within Tunica and Quitman counties; Ole Miss' ongoing Reading with the Rebels program, which features student-athletes visiting local elementary schools to read to students to increase support for reading and literacy throughout the state of Mississippi; the local Boys and Girls Club after school programs; the local Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Back to School event that helps prepare foster students for the start of the school year; CASA's Adopt-a-Child program, which assists children during the holiday season; CASA's 5K Superhero Run fundraiser; the Tim Tebow Foundation's A Night to Shine event, which holds a community-wide prom for individuals with disabilities; former Rebel KD Hill's Back to School Bash, a fun event for local children ahead of the school year; assisting in the inaugural AJ Brown Foundation event hosted by the former Rebel and current NFL great; Ole Miss' water collection drive to assist residents of Jackson, Mississippi during the city's water crisis; and multiple cleanup and donation efforts to help communities throughout Mississippi affected by devasting tornadoes in the spring of 2023.
2024 SEC Football Community Service Team
Tim Keenan III, Alabama
Taylen Green, Arkansas
Luke Deal, Auburn
Devin Moore, Florida
Dan Jackson, Georgia
Josh Williams, LSU
Nick Barr-Mira, Mississippi State
Brady Cook, Missouri
Josh Kattus, Kentucky
JJ Pegues, Ole Miss
Gavin Sawchuk, Oklahoma
Alex Huntley, South Carolina
Bru McCoy, Tennessee
Liona Lefau, Texas
Albert Regis, Texas A&M
Julian Ashby, Vanderbilt
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