SMSU Athletics

2014: Named second team All-American by the NCBWA & ABCA and honorable mention All-American by Daktronics ... first team All-NSIC honoree ... NSIC Newcomer of the Year ... CoSIDA Academic All-District ... Academic All-NSIC ... named SMSU most valuable player ... played in 50 games with 49 starts ... set school record with 19 home run and with six triples ... also set school record for total bases (144) ... led team in batting (.369), hits (66), runs scored (43) and slugging percentage (.804) ... ranks second in school single-season history in slugging pct. and RBIs and tied for fifth in hits ... tied NSIC record with 15 home runs (conference games only) ... led team with 17 multi-hit RBI games ... had 19 multi-hit games ... tied school record with three home runs vs. Augustana (4/19) ... had two six RBI games ... ended the season reaching base in 17 straight games ... had a team long 16-game hitting streak ... had at least one hit in all but eight games.

2013: Sat out season a redshirt.

Before SMSU: Played one season at Ridgewater College in Willmar, Minn.

High School: 2008 graduate of Jackson County Central High School ... played for coach Tyrone Wacker ... three-year letterwinner in baseball ... batted .318 with four home runs as a senior ... honorable mention all-conference.

Personal: Born Oct. 29, 1989 ... son of Craig and Gail Rients ... management major.