Coaches Tab Seven Vols All-SEC

Tennessee placed three student-athletes on the 2007 Coaches All-Southeastern Conference first team and another four on the second team, the league office announced Tuesday.

Anthony Parker made the first team offensive line, while Jerod Mayo was among the top linebackers named and Jonathan Hefney a member of the first secondary unit. Second team representatives were linebacker Rico McCoy, punter Britton Colquitt, freshman defensive back Eric Berry and freshman placekicker Daniel Lincoln.

Hefney and Colquitt are repeat selections from one year ago, although Hefney was a second-team choice in 2006 and Colquitt earned first-team honors. McCoy was a member of last season???s Freshman All-SEC squad.

Parker continues to receive acclaim for his fine junior season. The junior guard was named last week by Rivals.com as a third-team All-America and first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection. The Vols have allowed only four sacks in 13 games this season, averaging one sack every 122.8 pass attempts. The next closest teams in sacks allowed are Rutgers with nine and Arkansas 10.

Parker has experience all along the offensive front, having made 25 career starts. The Jonesboro, Ga., native???s versatility shows in the fact that his first career start came as a freshman center in a road win at LSU, followed by 12 starts in 2006 at right guard and all 12 starts this year at left guard.

Mayo was Tennessee???s defensive leader down the stretch and is the SEC???s leading tackler. The junior earned SEC Defensive Player of the Week for his 19-tackle effort Nov. 24 at Kentucky, one week after compiling a then-career high 15 tackles against Vanderbilt. He followed those numbers with a game-high 15 tackles in the SEC Championship Game against LSU, and the Hampton, Va., product leads all conference defenders with 127 total hits.

Hefney also had an outstanding performance in the Georgia Dome, finishing with 10 tackles and one pass breakup. Tennessee???s senior leader stands 15th among league tacklers with 88 and has performed brilliantly this season in guiding a gifted but young secondary toward its best football down the stretch.

One of those rookies was the freshman sensation Berry, who intercepted his fifth pass Saturday against LSU and already owns a school-record 222 interception return yards. That figure is second in league history and complements his 83 total tackles, best among SEC freshmen.

McCoy eclipsed the 100-tackle plateau Saturday and for the season has 106, good enough for sixth-best in the conference. The sophomore has 41/2 tackles for loss this season along with four pass breakups.

Colquitt was the consensus All-SEC punter one year ago and bounced back from an early-season injury to register a 41.5-yard punting average in 2007. He has a personal season-high 20 punts downed inside the 20-yard line against only four touchbacks this year, and his career punting average stands at 42.4 -- fourth on the all-time UT charts.

Lincoln already has been named to the Rivals.com All-Freshman national second team and Sporting News All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman squads behind his 21-of-28 showing on field goals. He has game-winning kicks against South Carolina and Vanderbilt and added four field goals in the 12-point victory at Mississippi State.

Tennessee???s seven honorees trailed only LSU with 10 and Arkansas and Florida with eight apiece. The Vols??? three firstteam selections were behind only LSU???s seven and four apiece from Alabama and Arkansas.

Eric Berry

Britton Colquitt

Daniel Lincoln

Rico McCoy


2007 ALL-SEC FOOTBALL TEAM (*-Ties / #-Unanimous Selection) (Coaches could not vote for their own players)
FIRST-TEAM ALL-SEC -- OFFENSE
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
TE	Jacob Tamme	Kentucky	6-5	240	Sr.	Danville, Ky.
OL	Robert Felton	Arkansas	6-4	320	Sr.	Houston, Texas
OL	Andre Smith	Alabama	6-4	348	So.	Birmingham, Ala.
OL	Anthony Parker	Tennessee	6-3	305	Jr.	Jonesboro, Ga.
OL	*Herman Johnson	LSU	6-7	356	Jr.	Olla, La.
OL	*Michael Oher	Ole Miss	6-5	325	Jr.	Memphis, Tenn.
OL	*Chris Williams	Vanderbilt	6-6	320	Sr.	Glynn, La.
C	Jonathan Luigs	Arkansas	6-4	315	Jr.	Little Rock, Ark.
WR	Kenny McKinley	South Carolina	6-0	177	Jr.	Mableton, Ga.
WR	Earl Bennett	Vanderbilt	6-1	202	Jr.	Birmingham, Ala.
QB	Tim Tebow	Florida	6-3	235	So.	Jacksonville, Fla.
RB	# Darren McFadden	Arkansas	6-2	215	Jr.	Little Rock, Ark.
RB	Knowshon Moreno	Georgia	5-11	207	Fr.	Belford, N.J.
SECOND-TEAM ALL-SEC -- OFFENSE
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
TE	Cornelius Ingram	Florida	6-4	230	Jr.	Hawthorne, Fla.
OL	Carlton Medder	Florida	6-5	319	Sr.	Clermont, Fla.
OL	Michael Brown	Mississippi State	6-5	300	Jr.	College Park, Ga.
OL	*Ciron Black	LSU	6-5	320	So.	Tyler, Texas
OL	*Antoine Caldwell	Alabama	6-4	288	Jr.	Montgomery, Ala.
OL	*Nate Garner	Arkansas	6-7	318	Sr.	Roland, Ark.
OL	*Mitch Petrus	Arkansas	6-4	300	Jr.	Carlisle, Ark.
OL	*Jim Tartt	Florida	6-3	316	Jr.	Sopchoppy, Fla.
OL	*Garry Williams	Kentucky	6-4	325	Jr.	Louisville, Ky.
C	Fernando Velasco	Georgia	6-4	318	Sr.	Wrens, Ga.
WR	Percy Harvin	Florida	5-11	187	So.	Virginia Beach, Va.
WR	DJ Hall	Alabama	6-3	186	Sr.	Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
QB	Andre??? Woodson	Kentucky	6-5	230	Sr.	Radcliff, Ky.
RB	Felix Jones	Arkansas	6-0	207	Jr.	Tulsa, Okla.
RB	Jacob Hester	LSU	6-0	228	Sr.	Shreveport, La.
FIRST-TEAM ALL-SEC -- DEFENSE
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
DL	# Glenn Dorsey	LSU	6-2	303	Sr.	Gonzales, La.
DL	Wallace Gilberry	Alabama	6-4	264	Sr.	Bay Minette, Ala.
DL	*Quentin Groves	Auburn	6-3	254	Sr.	Greenville, Miss.
DL	*Greg Hardy	Ole Miss	6-5	255	So.	Millington, Tenn.
DL	*Eric Norwood	South Carolina	6-0	258	So.	Acworth, Ga.
LB	# Ali Highsmith	LSU	6-1	225	Sr.	Miami, Fla.
LB	# Wesley Woodyard	Kentucky	6-1	212	Sr.	LaGrange, Ga.
LB	Jerod Mayo	Tennessee	6-2	230	Jr.	Hampton, Va.
LB	Brandon Spikes	Florida	6-3	243	So.	Shelby, N.C.
DB	# Craig Steltz	LSU	6-2	209	Sr.	New Orleans, La.
DB	Chevis Jackson	LSU	6-0	184	Sr.	Mobile, Ala.
DB	* Simeon Castille	Alabama	6-1	189	Sr.	Birmingham, Ala.
DB	* Rashad Johnson	Alabama	6-0	186	Jr.	Sulligent, Ala.
DB	* Jonathan Hefney	Tennessee	5-9	185	Sr.	Rock Hill, S.C.
DB	* Captain Munnerlyn	South Carolina	5-9	180	So.	Mobile, Ala.
SECOND-TEAM ALL-SEC -- DEFENSE
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
DL	Titus Brown	Mississippi State	6-3	250	Sr.	Tuscaloosa, Ala.
DL	Derrick Harvey	Florida	6-4	262	Jr.	Greenbelt, Md.
DL	Jeremy Jarmon	Kentucky	6-3	268	So.	Collierville, Tenn.
LB	Jonathan Goff	Vanderbilt	6-4	235	Sr.	Lynn, Mass.
LB	Rico McCoy	Tennessee	6-1	215	So.	Washington, D.C.
LB	Darry Beckwith	LSU	6-1	230	Jr.	Baton Rouge, La.
LB	*Jamar Chaney	Mississippi State	6-1	236	Jr.	Fort Pierce, Fla.
LB	*Dannell Ellerbe	Georgia	6-1	232	Jr.	Hamlet, N.C.
DB	D.J. Moore	Vanderbilt	5-10	180	So.	Spartanburg, S.C.
DB	Emanuel Cook	South Carolina	5-11	211	So.	Riviera Beach, Fla.
DB	Michael Grant	Arkansas	5-11	186	Sr.	Stone Mountain, Ga.
DB	*Eric Berry	Tennessee	5-11	195	Fr.	Fairburn, Ga.
DB	*Derek Pegues	Mississippi State	5-10	196	Jr.	Batesville, Miss.
FIRST-TEAM ALL-SEC -- SPECIAL TEAMS
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
PK	Colt David	LSU	5-9	173	Jr.	Grapevine, Texas
P	Patrick Fisher	LSU	6-5	238	Sr.	Hyattsville, Md.
RS	Felix Jones	Arkansas	6-0	207	Jr.	Tulsa, Okla.
SECOND-TEAM ALL-SEC -- SPECIAL TEAMS
Pos.	Name	School	Ht.	Wt.	Class	Hometown
PK	Daniel Lincoln	Tennessee	6-0	204	Fr.	Ocala, Fla.
P	*Britton Colquitt	Tennessee	6-3	205	Jr.	Knoxville, Tenn.
P	*Ryan Shoemaker	Auburn	6-0	188	Fr.	Birmingham, Ala.
RS	Brandon James	Florida	5-6	181	So.	St. Augustine, Fla.

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