2018: Named Most Valuable Performer...
Named First Team All-CCIW unanimous choice... Named the 2018 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Men’s Basketball Team... Named CCIW Player of the Week on January 29... Named D3 All-Region Team... Named D3Hoops.com All-Region Selections Third Team... Started in all 25 games, averaging 16.1 points per game... Led the team in with 178 rebounds, averaging 2.9 assists per game totaling 73... Led the team and the CCIW with a total of 52 steals, averaging 2.1 per game... Scored a career-high of 27 points, 12 of which were field goals with a 92 - 81 win against Millikin on January 20... CCIW Winter Academic All-Conference... Winter CCIW Jack Schwartz Academic All-Conference... Steve and Melissa Marovich Scholar Athlete of the Year... Recipient of Craig Deaton Award.
2017: Named Men's Basketball Most Valuable Performer and Larry Hamilton Scholar Athlete... Named First Team All-CCIW... NABC Honor Court recipient...
Started in all 26 games… Averaging 9.3 points per game… First on the team in steals with 82 and averaged 1.4 per game… Second on the team in rebounds with 158, averaging 3.2 assists per game and totaled 82, and had 26 blocked shots…Scored in double figures thirteen times with a career high 19 points in a 80-66 win against Robert Morris-Peoria on November 20... CCIW Winter Academic All-Conference.
2016: Named third-team All-CCIW…Recipient of the Jon Swift Men's Basketball Hustle Award... Named to the CCIW Winter Academic All-Conference... played in all 25 games and made 23 starts…averaged 7.7 points and a team-leading 6.2 rebounds…scored in double figures five times with a career-high 19 points at North Park on Jan. 27…pulled down 10 or more rebounds four times, including a career-high 12 boards in both the Jan. 27 North Park game and the Feb. 13 Wheaton (Ill.) contest.
2015: Named to the CCIW Winter Academic All-Conference... Played in 18-of-25 games and made 12 starts…averaged 4.4 points per game and 2.5 rebounds…scored 12 points with seven rebounds at North Park on Jan. 7... Named Larry Hamilton Scholar Athlete
High School: Named Illinois Basketball Coaches Association honorable mention all-state in 2013-14, as well as first-team All-North Suburban Conference and
Daily Herald all-area…first-team all-conference as a junior in 2012-13…played on three teams that reached the regionals…coached by Bill Pitcher…National Honor Society member, North Suburban Conference all-academic, and four-year highs honors student.
Personal: Double major in accounting and finance…his father, Fred Kruse, played basketball at North Park University and was named first-team All-CCIW in both 1982 and 1983.
