JAMAICA, N.Y. -- St. John’s University junior shortstop Mike Rozema (Fair Lawn, N.J.) was named a third-team All-America in the 13th annual teams announced today by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Rozema was one of four players from the BIG EAST to earn All-American honors from the NCBWA, joining Virginia Tech senior reliever Matt Dalton, who earned first team honors; Notre Dame junior second baseman Steve Sollman, Notre Dame sophomore pitcher Chris Niesel and Irish senior pitcher J.P. Gagne, all of whom earned third-team honors.

Arizona State sophomore Dustin Pedroia, who batted .404 with 52 RBI this season earned first team honors; Miami (Fla.) freshman Ryan Braun, who batted .374 with 17 home runs and 74 RBI, took second team honors, while Rozema and LSU junior shortstop Aaron Hill, who batted .366 with nine home runs and 67 RBI, shared third team honors.

A first-team All-BIG EAST selection, he finished the season batting .408, which led the team, ranked third in the BIG EAST and was among the top-20 in the nation. Rozema’s .408 average was tied for the fifth-best single season mark in school history and he is one of only eight players at the school to bat .400 or higher.

Rozema, who was the first junior captain under eighth year head coach Ed Blankmeyer, led the Red Storm in nearly every offensive category, including batting average, at-bats (196), hits (80), runs scored (44), runs batted in (33) and on-base percentage (.460). His is only the second player in program history to reach 80 hits in one season. In BIG EAST games, he ranked second in the league with a .439 batting average, and was also among the top-10 in hits (2nd, 43), stolen bases (5th, 9), doubles (3rd, 9), total bases (2nd, 59), on-base percentage (4th, .491) and slugging percentage (5th, .602).

Rozema, who is playing this summer with the Madison (Wisc.) Mallards of the Frontier League, was named the BIG EAST Player of the Week on April 14 after leading the Red Storm to a three-game sweep at Georgetown, batting .615 (8-for-13) with four runs scored, five RBI and a grand slam home run – the first of his career – during the weekend.

He also had a career-high 22-game hit streak, batting .542 in that span (45-for-83), with 21 runs scored, 19 RBI, six doubles, three triples and one home run. Rozema had a team-high 24 multi-hit games, including 15 with two hits, six with three and three four-hit games. He reached base safely in 26-straight games at one point, and in 48 of 54 games overall. He had a career-high .969 fielding percentage, which was the second-best mark of any BIG EAST shortstop this season.

He is the first Red Storm player to earn All-American honors since 1999, when third baseman Mike Dzurilla, who is now playing in the Chicago Cubs organization, earned third team honors.

St. John’s finished the season with a 29-27 overall record, and a 12-14 mark in the BIG EAST, seventh place overall.