NORTHBROOK, Illinois- Wartburg Head Football Coach Chris Winter was one of the 197 nominees for the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, announced today.
 
College football student-athletes and head coaches from all levels of the sport are recognized for their commitment to community service and leadership beyond the gridiron.
 
A voting panel of former Good Works Team members, head coaches and journalists select the team roster based on outstanding leadership on and off the field.

Winter leads a day of service for the team during preseason camp and organizes his team to help the college's orientation staff with first-year move-in day. In the past, his student-athletes also have participated in the college's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration through service. Winter also volunteers his time as a coach for the community's baseball and softball programs.  

 The final roster of 23 award recipients announced in September will bring together:

• 11 players from the NCAA FBS
• 11 players from the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), Divisions II, III, and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
• 1 honorary head coach

 
Winter was named the 2022 D3football.com National Coach of the Year; the 2022 D3football.com Regional Coach of the Year; the 2023 AFCA Regional Coach of the Year; and the 2022, 2023, and 2024 American Rivers Conference Coach of the Year.
 
 
Head Coach 
 

Name	School
Jeff Monken	Army West Point
Spencer Danielson	Boise State University
Jeff Lebby	Mississippi State University
Gary Fasching	Saint John's University (Minn.)
Fran Brown	Syracuse University
Todd Whitten	Tarleton State University
K.C. Keeler	Temple University
Kris McCullough	The University of Texas Permian Basin
Kory Allen	University of Findlay
Willie Fritz	University of Houston
Bret Bielema	University of Illinois
Ryan Silverfield	University of Memphis
Brent Venables	University of Oklahoma
Shane Beamer	University of South Carolina
Alex Golesh	University of South Florida
Chris Winter	Wartburg College