WICHITA, Kan. - Wichita
State baseball student-athlete Chris O'Brien has been named the 2011 National
Collegiate Baseball Writers of America District VI Player-of-the-Year.
O'Brien, a junior catcher from Tulsa, Okla., earned Joe
Carter Missouri Valley Conference Player-of-the-Year honors as well as second
team All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball. He hit .410 with 56 runs, 100 hits, 25 doubles, 10 home runs
and 70 RBI.
He also finished the season on a 29-game hitting streak,
which ranks fifth-best in Shocker history. O'Brien is also a finalist for the Johnny Bench Award and
was a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and the Dick Howser Trophy.
The 2011 NCBWA District Players of the Year are District I:
SS-3B Matt Gedman (Massachusetts); District II: OF George Springer (Connecticut);
District III: 1B Adam Brett Walker (Jacksonville); District IV: SP-UT Danny
Hultzen (Virginia); District V: UT Cody Fick (Evansville); District VI: C Chris
O'Brien (Wichita State); District VII: SP Taylor Jungmann (Texas); District
VIII: UT C.J. Cron (Utah); District IX: SP Trevor Bauer (UCLA).
The group, divided into areas as follows: District I-Maine,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania; District II:
Connecticut, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, District of
Columbia; III: Kentucky, Tennessee,Mississippi, Alabama, Florida; IV: Georgia, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland; V: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin; VI: Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dakota; VII: Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana; VIII: Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, New
Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Montana; District IX: California, Oregon, Washington,
Hawai'i, Arizona, Alaska.
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