2014: First Team All-Atlantic 10 Conference selection and Atlantic 10 All-Academic team selection... A-10 Co-Player of the Week (2/17)... Started all 56 games at second base for the Patriots... Finished third on the team with a .301 batting average and tied for second with 37 runs scored... Led Mason with a .464 on-base percentage, fourith in the Atlantic 10... Second on the team with a .445 slugging percentage, fourth with 27 RBI... Added 52 hits, 13 of them doubles with a team-high four homeruns... Led the team with 27 walks and 31 HBP... Set a new single-season program record for HBP and finishes as all-time program leader with 96 HBP.
2013: Missed the season after earning a medical redshirt ... currently ranks among Mason career leaders in games played (141, 42nd), games started (134, 42nd), plate appearances (617, 34th), hit by pitch (65, 1st), sacrifices (17, 19th) and on-base percentage (.424, 16th).
2012: Appeared in 55 contests with 54 starts ... finished the season hitting .226 with 42 hits, 13 doubles and one home run ... scored 27 runs while driving in 14 ... was hit by pitch 24 times, ranking second in the single season HBP standings behind the 26 he recorded a season ago ... had a season-best performance on April 21 against Old Dominion, going 1-for-2 with two RBI's and three runs scored ... had two six-game hitting streaks during the season, including March 3-10 and May 5-23 ... lone home run of the season came during the opening game of the CAA Tournament in Harrisonburg against VCU.
2011: Appeared in 50 games, all starts with 35 at second base and 15 at shortstop ... set the school's single-season record when he was hit by a pitch 26 times ... tied his own school record getting hit three times in a game against Long Island (2/25) ... hit .340 in 191 at-bats ... led the team with 46 runs scored ... had 13 doubles and four home runs ... was third on the team in batting average, hits (65) and stolen bases (6) ... had 29 RBI on the year ... was second on the team in multi-hit games with 20 and had eight multi-RBI games ... reached base 55.6 percent of the time when leading off an inning and hit .390 against left-handed pitching ... hit .414 over the final nine games of the season including .533 (8-for-15) in the season-ending series at Georgia State ... had three hits in a game eight times and finished the year with a four-hit contest against the Panthers ... homered twice against Niagara, once against Towson and once against James Madison ... reached base in 46 of the 49 games in which he had a plate appearance.
2010: Appeared in 36 games with 30 starts on the season, all at second base ... led all Mason freshmen in at-bats, doubles, RBI and runs and was second on the team being hit by 15 pitches ... was hit by a pitch in his first collegiate plate appearance and began his career going 1-for-1 with two runs scored against Northwestern (2/18) ... had first career RBI against Marist (2/20) going 1-for-2 with an RBI ... had first multi-hit game against UMBC (3/31) going 3-for-4 with three RBI and four runs scored including a double and a triple ... also had multi-hit games against UNCW (4/4), Maryland (4/6), ODU (4/11), Longwood (4/13), Northeastern (4/18) and Georgia State (5/2) ... hit .444 against left-handed pitching and batted .406 with runners in scoring position ... also hit .405 with two outs ... over a 23-game span from March 20 through May 2, hit .333 with 16 RBI and 22 runs.
Prep: Earned three letters in baseball at DeMatha High School ... three-times named all confernce, including first-team as a senior ... twice named all-county and was selected as the Prince George's County Player of the Year by the Washington Post as a senior ... Second-Team Washington Post All-Met and was the MVP of the Brooks Robinson High School All-Star Game ... hit .373 with five homers, 22 RBI and 21 steals as a senior.
Personal: Full name is Christopher Louis Cook ... parents are Karen and Terry Cook ... has one brother, Joseph ... father played baseball at Navy and brother at St. Joe's ... member of the National Honor Society ... hobbies include fishing ... also recruited by Temple, St. Joe's and Radford.
CAREER MASON BATTING STATISTICS
YEAR |
GP/GS |
AVG |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
SB/SBA |
2010 |
36/30 |
.280 |
100 |
25 |
28 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
19 |
16 |
21 |
1/2 |
2011 |
50/50 |
.340 |
191 |
46 |
65 |
13 |
0 |
4 |
29 |
20 |
26 |
6/8 |
2012 |
55/54 |
.226 |
186 |
27 |
42 |
13 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
22 |
32 |
2/6 |
2014 |
56/56 |
.301 |
173 |
37 |
52 |
13 |
0 |
4 |
27 |
27 |
32 |
2/3 |
TOTALS |
197/190 |
.288 |
650 |
135 |
187 |
42 |
2 |
9 |
89 |
85 |
111 |
11/19 |