DALLAS - Dallas Baptist star Jason Krizan, who set a NCAA Division season mark with 39 doubles, has won the 2011 Howard Green Metroplex Collegiate Player of the Year Award presented by the DFW Hall-Ruggles Chapter for Society of American Baseball Research.

He becomes the seventh DBU standout since 1993 to win or share this prestigious kudos and helped the Patriots to a 42-20 record as a DI independent. His batwork also led DBU to its first-ever NCAA regional
triumph in the Fort Worth Regional hosted by TCU. The Patriots were two wins away from advancing to their initial NCAA Division I World Series berth before falling to Pacific-10 Conference power California in the
Santa Clara Super Regional.

The prestigious award is named in memory of SABR Hall-Ruggles Chapter founder and original president Howard Green, who was a legend in Texas professional and college baseball circles for over six decades and
also served in several elected capacities in Tarrant County.

Krizan put up numbers almost unheard of NCAA annals as he shattered the previous mark for individual doubles of 36 by three different players. He also set a school record with a 39-game hitting streak - 11th-longest in major college annals - in 2011.

The 6-0, 186-pound senior outfielder from Pflugerville, Texas, added consensus All-America honors to his vita with first team recognition from Louisville Slugger Collegiate Baseball, National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, Baseball America, American Baseball Coaches Association, and Perfect Game.

He topped the Patriots in virtually every statistical category with a .413 batting average, 102 hits, 10 homers (co-leader), 39 doubles, 81 runs-batted-in, 173 total bases, and .700 slugging percentage. He was
the NCAA regular-season statistical champ in doubles with 37, doubles per game at .66 and hits with 97 before collecting two more doubles and five more safeties in six postseason outings.

Krizan also finished the campaign among the Top 10 in nine total NCAA individual categories including RBIs, total bases, average, RBI per game, slugging percentage, total runs, hits, doubles, and doubles per contest. During his record 39-game hitting streak he sizzled with a .461 batting average, 32 doubles, nine homers, 59 RBI, .814 slugging percentage, 21 walks, and .524 on-base percentage.

The Pflugerville native, who became the 21st DBU student-athlete taken in the Major League Baseball Draft since the program moved to Division I in 2006, was selected in the eighth round (257th overall) by the
Detroit Tigers and began his professional career with West Michigan in the Midwest League in June 2011. He is one of 23 professional baseball signees (including the 21 draftees) for the Patriots' program since '06.

Krizan, who was 13-for-17 in stolen bases and made just three errors in 142 total chances afield as a senior in '11, was a four-year stalwart for coach Dan Heefner's Patriots. He played as a freshman on DBU's inaugural NCAA Division I tournament team in the 2008 College Station Regional. He later earned ABCA All-Midwest Region accolades as a sophomore when he parked 16 homers, drove in 74 runs and batted .389 to
lead the squad in 2009 and as a junior in 2010 when he batted .356 with 11 homers, 57 RBI and a .613 slugging rate.

The four teams on which the All-America OF played had a composite record of 145-85, and he has been one of the most decorated individuals in DBU long diamond history, which has produced 11 Major League
players dating back to its NAIA championship contending teams under retired coach Jim Harp and through the divisional transition years under retired director of athletics Wayne Poage.

DBU's 2011 senior pacesetter and hitter deluxe joins an impressive array of previous Howard Green SABR Award recipients, including such luminaries as Houston Astros batting star Hunter Pence of UTA, TCU's
Scott Malone and Lance Broadway, and DBU's Drew Holder, Brandon Harper and Evan Bigley, among others.

Previous winners of the Howard Green SABR Metroplex College Baseball Player of the Year have been Scott Malone, TCU, 1993; Jason Parsons, Dallas Baptist, 1994; Johnny Issom, Texas Wesleyan, 1995; Karl Chatman, Dallas Baptist, 1996; Brandon Harper, Dallas Baptist, 1997; Royce Huffman, TCU, 1998; Cody Sundbeck, Dallas Baptist, 1999; (co) Jon Browder, Dallas Baptist; Pat Hannon, Texas Wesleyan, 2000; Mike Hall, Texas Wesleyan, 2001; Terry Trofholz, TCU, 2002; Clayton Jerome, TCU, 2003; Hunter Pence, Texas-Arlington, 2004; Lance Broadway, TCU, 2005; Drew Holder, Dallas Baptist, 2006; Sam Demel, TCU, 2007; Evan Bigley, Dallas Baptist, 2008; Matt Otteman, Texas-Arlington, 2009; (co) Michael Choice, Texas-Arlington; Matt Purke, TCU.