SMSU Athletics

2012: Academic All-NSIC ... named CoSIDA Academic All-District ... played in 36 games with 33 starts ... led team with a .354 batting average ... second on the team with eight stolen bases.

2011: Academic All-NSIC ... played in 30 games with 26 starts ... batted .271 with one home run, one double and one triple with 13 RBIs ... belted home run versus Wayne State (5/8) ... finished season with six multi-hit games ... tied for third on the team with four multi-RBI games ... recorded four hits versus West Virginia Wesleyan (3/9).

2010: Played in 31 games with 26 starts ... finished third on the team with a .398 batting average ... added five doubles and one home run ... recorded 18 RBIs ... collected first career hit vs. Ashland (3/8) ... hit first career home run vs. Bemidji State (4/14) ... had 13 multi-hit games ... had three hits in a game four times ... had two four-RBI games (vs. Bemidji State, 4/14 and Augustana, 4/26) ... finished 5-for-9 at NSIC tournament ... tied school single-game record with seven at bats vs. Upper Iowa (4/17).

2009: Sat out season as a redshirt.

High School: 2008 graduate of Wabasso High School ... coached by Chad Olson ... four-year letterwinner ... all-state as a senior ... two-time All-Tomahawk Conference ... two-time Marshall Independent Player of the Year ... New Ulm Journal Player of the Year and Tomahawk Conference Player of the Year as a senior ... two-year team captain ... batted .468 with 14 doubles, two home runs, 42 RBI and 15 stolen bases as a senior ... batted .430 with 10 doubles, one home run, 25 RBI and 12 steals as a junior ... also four-year letterwinner in football and basketball ... Tomahawk Conference Offensive Player of the Year, New Ulm Journal Player of the Year and KNUJ Player of the Year as a senior in football ... two-year captain in football and basketball ... two-time all-conference in basketball ... scored over 1,000 points in career ... Excel Award winner.

Personal: Born Oct. 12, 1989 ... son of Mike and Cheri Eichten ... biology major.