ELON, N.C. – Elon senior wide receiver Aaron Mellette garnered his fourth All-America honor of the year as he was named to the Walter Camp Football Foundation 2012 FCS All-America Team on Dec. 19.  Mellette has now earned Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America honors in consecutive seasons.

Mellette was a first-team All-Southern Conference selection by both the league's coaches and media members and placed eighth in the voting for the Walter Payton Award, which is presented annually to the top player in the Football Championship Subdivision.  The Sanford, N.C., native concluded the season with a league-leading 108 points and 18 receiving touchdowns.  The TD catches are tied for the second-most ever in a single season in SoCon history.  In his senior year, Mellette caught 97 passes for 1,398 yards.  He led the SoCon and ranked second nationally in both receptions per game (8.82) and receiving yards per game (127.09).  He eclipsed 100 receiving yards in eight of Elon's 11 contests, including matching career-highs with 237 yards and three touchdowns against Appalachian State on Oct. 6.  Mellette posted a six-game span in which he caught at least two touchdowns.  He will participate in the upcoming Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 26.

For his career in the maroon and gold, Mellette posted 4,254 receiving yards, 304 receptions, 44 touchdown catches and 23 100-yard games.  All of those numbers rank second in both Elon and Southern Conference history.

Mellette has also earned All-America distinction from the Associated Press, the American Football Coaches Association, The Sports Network/Fathead.com this year.

In all, players from nine different conferences and 24 institutions were represented on the 2012 Walter Camp FCS All-America team.  The Southern Conference and Colonial Athletic Association had the most selections with six honorees each, while the Missouri Valley Conference had four.

Walter Camp, “The Father of American Football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889.  Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.  The Walter Camp Football Foundation – a New Haven based all-volunteer group – was founded in 1967 to perpetuate the ideals of Camp and to continue the tradition of selecting All-America teams for the Football Bowl and Championship subdivisions.

2012 Walter Camp Football Foundation FCS All-America Team
Offense
QB - Taylor Heinicke, Old Dominion
RB - Miguel Maysonet, Stony Brook
RB - Zach Zenner, South Dakota State
WR - Erik Lora, Eastern Illinois
WR - Aaron Mellette, Elon
TE - A.C. Leonard, Tennessee State
OL - Chris Howley, Maine
OL - Mike Sellers, The Citadel
OL - Billy Turner, North Dakota State
OL - Earl Watford, James Madison
C - Corey Howard, Central Arkansas
PK - Patrick Murray, Fordham

Defense
DL - Caleb Schreibeis, Montana State
DL - Colton Underwood, Illinois State
DL - Brandon Thurmond, Arkansas-Pine Bluff
DL - Davis Tull, Chattanooga
DL - Joseph LeBeau, Jackson State
LB - Matt Evans, New Hampshire
LB - Jeremy Kimbrough, Appalachian State
LB - Stephon Robertson, James Madison
DB - Jaquiski Tartt, Samford
DB - Cooper Taylor, Richmond
DB - Darnell Taylor, Sam Houston State
DB - Marcus Williams, North Dakota State
P - Andy Wilder, Northern Arizona
KR - Jerodis Williams, Furman