TULSA, OKLA. ? Will Shields wants to make the world a better place.

Shields, a 10-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman from Lawton, on Monday was the male recipient of this year’s Henry P. Iba Citizen Award, given to athletes who excel in sports and show a desire to help others through their actions. The female recipient is golfer Amy Alcott.

Shields started the Will to Succeed foundation in 1993 to help abused, battered and neglected women and children. As one of his charitable deeds, Shields said he would arrange for battered women to spend a “day of beauty” where they are taken to a beauty salon to pamper themselves.

“When they first get there, they are quiet and they don’t say much,” he said, “and they are wondering, ‘Why is this being done? Is it OK? Is it all right?’ And then after they start putting the makeup on, it’s, ‘I used to look like this every day. I used to look like this all the time.’ It’s a good feeling to see those ladies perk up.”

Shields also is involved with St. Vincent’s Family Service Center, a nonprofit day care and social service center in Kansas City, Mo. He also helps raise funds for the Marillac Center, which serves children with emotional and behavioral disorders, and Safehome, which provides temporary housing to battered women and their children.

When the Kansas City Chiefs nominated him for the NFL’s Man of the Year Award, they were unable to fit all of his good deeds on one sheet – even after reducing the size of the type. He received the award in 2004.

“Nobody does any more,” said Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil. “And nobody does it any better.”

Shields said he was helped by parents, coaches, teachers and family friends when he was growing up.

“If I have changed the life of one, that’s all that matters,” Shields said.