University of West Florida

2011: Part-time player in the outfield and at designated hitter, starting 25 games and seeing action in 42... finished the year hitting .295 with two doubles, one triple and two home runs... drove in 18 runs and scored 17... homered and drove in three runs against Delta State (2/19)... hit 2-3 with a home run, sacrifice fly, bunt single and three RBIs at North Georgia (3/2)... hit 3-4 against Delta State at the GSC Tournament (5/8)... GSC All-Academic Team and Academic Honor Roll selection.

2010: Finished the season batting .292 ... appeared in 46 games, making 37 starts in the outfield and at designated hitter ... tallied nine doubles and two home runs with 18 RBIs ... recorded six multiple-hit and -RBI games, including three, three-RBI games ... blasted his first homerun of the season in a 14-2 win over Northwest Missouri State (2/18) ... went 3-4 with a run scored in the Argos’ game one win at No. 10 Delta State (3/6) ... went 5-6 with six walks, four runs scored and three RBIs in a three-game series against Mississippi Valley State ... led the team with six runs batted in over a six-game stretch which included series against North Alabama and Arkansas Tech (3/20-24).

2009: Started 26 of the 43 games he appeared in ... batted .277 with five doubles and 11 RBIs in his sophomore season with the Argos’ ... totaled six multiple-hit games ... went 1-1 with a pair of walks and a season-high two RBIs in a 13-8 win over Mobile (2/4) ... had a 2-3 performance with two runs scored against Quincy (2/21) ... in the Gulf South Conference Tournament against No. 1 seed Delta State he went 2-3 with an RBI and two runs scored in the Argos’ 9-2 upset over the Statesmen (5/4) ... added his second multiple-RBI performance of the year the following day as he went 2-4 with a run scored and two RBIs against Harding in the GSC Tournament (5/5).

2008: Appeared in 29 games while starting 24 of them ... batted .227 with one homerun, three doubles and eight runs batted in ... recorded six multi-hit games in his freshman season ... knocked his first Argonaut homerun against Quincy (2/24) in a 13-5 win.

High School: Attended Pace High School ... lettered in baseball and basketball as a right fielder and power forward ... second team all-area in baseball as well as an all-state honorable mention ... named to the third team all-area for basketball ... led Pace to the 2006 class 5A state championship.

Personal: Son of Mark Kroll and Nancy Way ... has three siblings, Shawn, Mazzia and Ryan ... majoring in Exercise Science ... member of the UWF Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and served as vice president in 2009-10 ... lists cooking as one of his favorite hobbies.

Photo by Bill Stockland