Justin Bethel (Blythewood, S.C.) was named to the College Sports Madness 2011 FCS All-American Team, it was announced today.

Bethel, who earned second-team All- American honors, was named last week to the CSN Big South All-Conference Team.

Bethel was a Big South Pre-season All-Conference Selection and earned the third All-Conference nod of his career and his and PC's first Defensive Player-of-the-Year award recently.  Bethel was just the second defensive back to be named Big South Defensive Player of the Year and the first since 2003.

The Two-time Big South Special Teams and Defensive Player of the Week is a Buck Buchanan Award Watch List member and a FCS College Football Performance Award DB, National DB and National Defensive Performance Award winner.

He became the all-time leader in blocked kicks this season as well as the all-time leader in career solo blocks.  Bethel leads the team in tackles with 87, 3.5 of which were for a loss.  He has a sack to his credit and has recorded four interceptions, one of which he ran back for a touchdown against California, where he also had a blocked punt that he ran back for a score for the team's only points of the game.

Bethel was fourth in the league in tackles, third in passes defended and second in interceptions.  He recorded double-digit tackles in four games, including a career-high 15 at Furman this season.

Bethel is the PC career leader in tackles, as well as interceptions.