John held down the right field position for most of the 2009 season ... honored on Academic All-Summit League Team and Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence last season ... chemistry major
2009 Played in 54 of the team’s 56 games, making 50 starts ... recipient of team’s Cole Irish Mr. Hustle Award ... led team by being hit by pitch 14 times ... ranked second on team with five stolen bases and third with 131 putouts ... registered .985 fielding percentage .... hit .355 in Summit League games ... posted 16 multi-hit games, including pair of four-hit performances ... first four-hit game came in opener of series at Oral Roberts (4/10) ... also hit first home run of season later in series at ORU ... homered in home doubleheader nitecap against North Dakota (4/20), then added home runs in each game of twinbill at UND two days later (4/22) ... opened series at Western Illinois by going 3-for-6 with two doubles, RBI and three runs scored (4/24) ... in first game of doubleheader against Oakland, went 4-for-6 with double, four runs batted in, two runs scored and two stolen bases (5/2) ... was 3-for-3 with a solo home run in series finale versus Oakland (5/3) ... put together 12-game hitting streak from late April through mid-May, during which he hit .393 (22-for-56) BEFORE SDSU Spent first two years of college at Nebraska, redshirting during the 2006 season before playing in four games during 2007 campaign, in which he hit .333 ... returned home to play 2008 season at North Iowa Area Community College, where he led team with nine home runs, while ranking second on squad with .388 batting average and 48 runs batted in ... also added 16 stolen bases, 13 doubles and two triples ... 2005 graduate of Mason City High School, where he earned first-team all-state honors three times (2003-05) and also was an academic all-state seletion ... team made state tournament appearances in 2003 and 2004 ... also lettered in basketball two times