George Mason University Athletics

2012: Earned Third Team All-CAA, First Team ABCA/Rawlings All-East Region honors and First Team VaSID All-State honors as a DH ... also named to the CAA All-Tournament Team ... one of just two Patriots to start all 57 contests ... finished his career at Mason 10th in home runs (30), 28th in walks (71), 12th in hit by pitch (23), 17th in strikeouts (117), 15th in slugging percentage (.572) and 23rd in on-base percentage (.417) ... in 2012, he ranked among the Mason single-season leaders with 57 games played (17th), 57 games started (16th), 251 plate appearances (24th), 15 home runs (13th), 51 RBI's (28), 38 walks (14th) and 13 HBP (11th) ... drove in a season-high five RBI's while going 2-for-4 at the plate with two home runs as the Patriots fell to N.C. State on February 24 ... owned an eight-game hitting streak from March 7-17, going 11-for-29 (.379) with 9 RBI's, 8 runs scored, five doubles and four home runs ... reached base safely in 17-consecutive contests from March 2-23 ... ended his career with a four-game hitting streak, going 7-for-14 (.500) with 11 RBI's, five runs scored and four home runs ... slammed three home runs in Mason's two games of the CAA Tournament, accounting for over half (eight of 15) of the Patriots runs scored.

2011: Started all 54 games for the Patriots with 38 at first base and 16 at designated hitter ... hit .270 on the year in 204 at-bats with a team-high 15 home runs ... led the team with 48 RBI while scoring 40 runs ... slugged .539, tops on the team, and led the club with 25 extra-base hits ... tops on the team with 14 multi-RBI games and put together an eight-game hitting streak during the year ... hit .353 against left-handed pitching and reahed base 47.2 percent of the time when leading off an inning ... more than half his RBI (28) came with two outs ... hit first homer at Mason in the season opener, going deep against USC Upstate ... had a season-high five RBI against Long Island (Feb. 25) with a homer, a single, and a double ... bulk of long-ball production came from April 1 through May 4 when he hit 10 home runs in a 22-game span ... had lone multi-homer game against James Madison (April 1).

Prep: Valley League All-Star ... played for New Market Rebels in summer '09.

Personal: Parents are Steve and Lynn Helgeson ... has a bother Scott ... uncle Eric Helgeson played baseball at Virginia Tech ... also has another uncle, Kirk who played basketball at Tech ... recruited by Duke, Radford, Georgia Southern, JMU, Virginia Tech, Liberty, and Walters State JC ... hobby is playing the guitar ... business major.

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