Richmond's Glassmyer earns 2026 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nomination
Richmond’s Carter Glassmyer joined a 162-player national Good Works Team nominee pool, giving the Spiders another way to sell their FCS identity beyond wins.
Richmond announced July 20 that Carter Glassmyer was named a 2026 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nominee, landing the Spiders on a national honor roll built around service as much as Saturdays. The list included 162 college football student-athletes recognized for leadership in service, academics and athletics, and the 2026 class also included the Good Works Team’s first female nominee.
For Richmond, the nod does more than add another line to Glassmyer’s bio. It gives the program a nationally recognizable platform at a time when FCS schools have to market more than record and rankings. A Good Works Team nomination helps Richmond show recruits, alumni and fans that the Spiders are pushing a student-athlete profile built on character and classroom work, not just box scores. That matters in a subdivision where identity is often the separator between a program that gets noticed and one that gets lost in the noise.
The award itself carries weight because it is not new window dressing. The 2026 edition is the 35th annual Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, and the AFCA tied the nominations directly to leadership in service, academics and athletics. Temple, Liberty and other programs also announced nominees on July 20, underscoring that Richmond was part of a broader national release rather than a one-off recognition. The Spiders also amplified the moment on social media, congratulating Glassmyer on the honor.
Glassmyer’s profile had already started to build beyond the field before this latest nod. Richmond announced on Jan. 6 that Glassmyer and Scott Hummel were selected as FCS ADA Academic All-Stars, a separate recognition that put Glassmyer in a small group of players being cited for classroom success. Put together, the academic honor and the Good Works Team nomination give Richmond a clean, credible story line it can use in the months before the season: a player representing the program in academics, service and athletics, all in the same calendar year.
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