Army West Point Athletics
2016 Baseball Roster
Roster
Kris Lindner
- Class:
- Junior
- Position:
- INF
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 185
- Hometown:
- Morehead City, N.C.
- High School:
- West Carteret
- 2017 Senior CLASS Award Nominee
- 2017 All-Patriot League First Team
- 2017 Patriot League Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- 2017 Academic All-Patriot League Team
- 2017 Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week nod 1x
- 2017 College Sports Madness Patriot League Player of the Week nod 1x
- 2016 All-Patriot League First Team
- 2016 Academic All-Patriot League Team
- 2014 College Sports Madness All-Patriot League Second Team
- 2014 Patriot League Rookie of the Week nod 1x
2017: Started and saw action in 52 of Army’s 56 games, missing four due to injury … Finished third on the team with a .279 batting average … Compiled 50 hits, 30 runs, 11 doubles (led team), three triples (second on team) and three home runs in 179 at bats … Also notched 21 walks and 33 RBI, while being hit 15 times (second most) … Converted on 12-of-15 stolen base opportunities to go along with his two sacrifice fly balls and six sacrifice hits … Notched a .425 slugging and .396 on-base percentage … Recorded 99 putouts, 106 assists and six errors as Army’s second baseman … Finished with a .972 fielding percentage, while helping to turn 24 double plays …… In Patriot League play batted .322 with 19 hits, 14 runs, five doubles, 16 RBI, 34 total bases and eight walks … Posted a .team-high .576 slugging and .474 on-base percentage … Registered 12 multi-hit games, including a season-best 4-for-5 performance against Alabama State on March 14 … Compiled four RBI, two runs, a home run, and a stolen base in that contest … Notched three hits in a game on five other occasions … Accounted for three RBI in wins over Presbyterian, Lafayette and Bucknell … Tallied an 11-game on-base streak from Feb. 25-March 17 … Added a four-game hitting streak from April 1-2 in a series with Lafayette … Drilled a two-out three-run home run over the right field fence in the seventh inning at Lafayette to hand Army the 4-3 edge … Recorded two doubles in a game on two different occasions at Duke and against Bowling Green … Notched a triple in games with Harvard, Lafayette and Bucknell … Swiped two bases opposite the Leopards on April 1 … Closed out a 10-1 victory at Bucknell on April 8 going 3-for-6 with three RBI, a run and a double … Went 3-for-4 against Duke and Bowling Green, while finishing 2-for-3 versus Presbyterian, Harvard, Lafayette, and Albany … Tallied three walks in a win at Bucknell on April 9 … Earned Army Athletic Association Athlete of the Week and College Sports Madness Patriot League Player of the Week nods on April 4 after batting .615 (8-for-13) with one home run, five RBI and four runs score in route to a 3-1 weekend series at Lafayette … Named the Patriot League Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, while notching Patriot League First Team and Academic All-Patriot League Team honors as well … Was also tabbed a Senior CLASS Award nominee.
2016: Was Army’s starting shortstop for 46 of the team’s 48 games, missing two games due to injury … Was one of four unanimous selections to the All-Patriot League First Team … Voted to the Academic All-Patriot League Team … Led the Black Knights offensively with a .315 batting average (52-for-165), as well as posting a team high in slugging percentage (.394), on-base percentage (.430), hits (52), doubles (8), walks (21), hit by pitches (13), stolen bases (14-for-16) and multi-hit games (17) … Finished tied for second on the team with 10 extra base hits … Posted a .310 average (18-for-58) in Patriot League action with six runs, three doubles, one triple, one homer and 11 walks … Finished the regular season as the Patriot League leader in hit by pitches, second in stolen bases and third in OBP … Went a combined 4-for-8 with a run scored and three stolen bases in a doubleheader against Penn State (2/20) … Scored a pair of runs at Middle Tennessee State (2/26) … Went 2-for-3 with a team season-high three runs at Belmont (2/28) … Recorded a season-long five-game hit streak while in Florida from March 12-18 … Went a combined 10-for-20 in that span and contributed multiple hits in four of the five games … Was 2-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBI against Harvard (3/17) … Earned the AAA Play of the Week with a couple of diving stops up the middle against Seton Hall (3/25) … Hit his second-career homer in the series-opener against Bucknell (4/9) … Collected a trio of hits and scored twice in the night cap at Navy (4/23) … Had five hits against the Mids … Capped Army’s six-run sixth inning at the 11th Annual Hudson Valley Baseball Classic with a two-run double to right field in the victory over Marist (4/27).
2015: Played and started in 18 games at second base as a sophomore before sustaining a season-ending injury … Posted a .343 batting average with 24 hits in 70 at bats … Second on the team with two triples … Second on the team with a nine-game hitting streak … Tied for fifth on the team with seven multiple-hit games … Recorded two four-hit games … Drove in three runs in two games … Went 4-for-5 with a double and three RBI in the win over Dayton (2/14) … Singled and tripled, drove in three runs and scored once against USC Upstate … Went 2-for-4 with a stolen base against Longwood (2/28) … Singled and scored two runs against Coppin State (3/7) to start his nine-game hitting streak … Singled and doubled and scored one run opposite UMass (3/15) … Went 4-for-5 with one RBI and scored three times against Harvard (3/19) … Went 2-for-4 with a triple, drove in one and crossed the plate once versus Harvard (3/21).
2014: College Sports Madness Second Team All-Patriot League selection … Patriot League Rookie of the Week (4/7) … Played in 41 games as a freshman, making 39 starts … Saw action at second base in 37 games … Appeared as the designated hitter four times and played at shortstop once … Fifth on the team with a .270 batting average (34-for-126) … Drove in 15 runs with three doubles and a home run … Posted a .317 slugging percentage … Second on the team with 18 walks and was hit by seven pitches … Registered a .386 on-base percentage … Stole 13 bases in 15 attempts ... Registered seven multi-hit games … Pieced together a seven-game hitting streak between Mar. 31 - April 6 against Lehigh (2 games), FDU (1 game) and Lafayette (four games) … Reached base safely in 10 straight games … Drove in two runs on five occasions … Scored three runs against North Dakota State (3/18) and three opposite Lafayette (4/6) … Hit his first-career home run in a 2-1 win over Lafayette (4/5) … Stole two bases opposite Massachusetts (3/15) and against North Dakota State (3/18).
Background: 2013 graduate of West Carteret High School ... Three-time All-Coastal Conference selection ... Chosen for the Lenny Dykstra Award for positive attitude in 2010 ... Selected team MVP as a junior ... Named Best Defensive Player as a senior ... Four-time Academic Achievement honoree.
