CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel was well-represented on the All-Southern Conference teams announced Tuesday with 14 different Bulldogs earning 24 total places on the all-conference or all-freshman teams.

Head coach Brent Thompson was selected as the Southern Conference Coach of the Year by the coaches and media, while defensive back Kailik Williams was voted the SoCon Defensive Player of the Year by the media and offensive lineman Isaiah Pinson earned the Jacobs Blocking Trophy selected by the coaches. The Citadel had a conference-best 11 All-SoCon selections on the media team, including a league-high eight on the first team, and was the only team with at least one representative on first-team and second-team offense, defense and special teams. The Bulldogs had 10 on the coaches' team, second in the conference, and three more selections on the All-Freshman Team.

Thompson, in his first year as head coach after two years as the Bulldogs' offensive coordinator, has led The Citadel to a 10-1 overall record and the No. 6 seed in the FCS Playoffs. The Citadel earned its second straight Southern Conference championship and tied the record for SoCon wins in a season by completing only the seventh 8-0 conference season in SoCon history. Thompson has shattered The Citadel's record for most wins by a first-year head coach, bettering the previous record of six wins, set in 1916, on Oct. 15 and is only four victories away from the program's record for most wins in the first two years of a coaching career. He is one of only two first-year head coaches in Southern Conference history to win eight conference games and the first since Bob Pruett led Marshall to eight wins in 1996. Thompson is the first to earn the coaches' Coach of the Year honor in his first season since Georgia Southern's Paul Johnson in 1997.

Williams is only the third Bulldog to win the media's Defensive Player of the Year award and first since Scott Thompson won the honor in 1986. Linebacker Brian Ruff was named the SoCon's Player of the Year in 1975 and 1976 before the award was split into offense and defense, and last year defensive lineman Mitchell Jeter became The Citadel's first Defensive Player of the Year voted by the coaches. Williams leads The Citadel in tackles with 95, including 8.0 for loss with 0.5 sacks, and has added two interceptions, five pass breakups and one forced fumble. The junior from Ormond Beach, Florida, ranks eighth in the SoCon with an average of 8.6 tackles per game, and his interceptions total is tied for fifth in the conference. 

Pinson is the second Bulldog to earn the SoCon Jacobs Blocking Trophy and joins Mike Sellers, who won the award in 2012. Pinson has started 36 straight games, including all 11 this season at left tackle. The junior from Wellford, South Carolina, blocks for an offense that leads the Southern Conference in eight different categories. The Citadel's two sacks allowed this season are the fewest in all of Division I, and its average of 358.5 rushing yards per game ranks second in Division I. The Bulldogs also lead the Southern Conference in time of possession, yards per completion, fewest tackles for loss allowed, rushing touchdowns, third-down conversions and yards per rush. Their average time of possession of 34 minutes, 42 seconds ranks second in FCS, while the Bulldogs' 16.7 yards per completion and 3.4 tackles for loss allowed rank third in FCS, and the 32 rushing touchdowns rank as the fifth-highest total in the country.

Between the media and coaches teams, The Citadel earned eight total all-conference recognitions on offense. Pinson and senior right tackle Nick Jeffreys earned first-team status by the coaches and media. Senior B-Back Tyler Renew, who ranks third in the Southern Conference with an average of 92.7 rushing yards per game and has topped the 1,000-yard mark this season, was a first-team selection by the media and second-team honoree by the coaches. Senior left guard Kyle Weaver earned second-team honors by both the media and coaches.

The Bulldogs had nine all-conference honors on defense. Williams, senior defensive lineman Joe Crochet, senior linebacker Tevin Floyd and junior defensive back Dee Delaney, who ranks second in the conference in interceptions and passes defended, all earned first-team honors by the media, and sophomore defensive lineman Ken Allen made the media's second team. Williams, Crochet and Delaney also were voted first-team selections by the coaches, while Floyd was on the coaches' second-team.

DeAndre Schoultz and Cody Clark added four more selections on special teams. Schoultz, who leads the Southern Conference with an average of 12.4 yards per punt return, was voted the first-team return specialist by the coaches and media. Clark, whose 12 field goals and .750 field-goal percentage rank third in the conference, was the second-team selection at kicker by both the coaches and media.

In addition to the all-conference selections, The Citadel also placed three on the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team that is voted on only by the coaches. Offensive lineman Drew McEntyre, defensive back Khafari Buffalo and kicker Jacob Godek all earned all-freshman designation. 

The Citadel has a first-round bye in the playoffs and will host a second-round game in Johnson Hagood Stadium on Dec. 3. The Bulldogs face the winner of this week's game between Charleston Southern and Wofford. Kickoff on Dec. 3 is set for 6 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on ESPN3.

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