Justin Bethel (Blythewood, S.C.) has earned more post-season honors after a stellar senior season with the Presbyterian College football team.  Bethel was named to the Phil Steele FCS All-America Team, as well as the Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS All-America Team.  He was a first-team and second-team selection, respectively.

Bethel, who earned Phil Steele Pre-Season All-American honors this past summer, was recently named to the College Sports Madness 2011 FCS All-American Team as well as CSN Big South All-Conference honors.  He was also named to the Associate Press FCS All-American Second-Team this past week.

The Two-time Big South Special Teams and Defensive Player of the Week is a Buck Buchanan Award finalist 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 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 for his performance on the field this past season.  Bethel was just the second defensive back to be named Big South Defensive Player of the Year and the first since 2003.

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.

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