DALLAS -- A stellar career. A stellar season. And now one more program record.
LeTourneau baseball graduate student
Dane Jones was named the ASC co-Male Athlete of the Year, announced the league on Tuesday, becoming the first-ever YellowJacket to win the award.
The ASC Athlete of the Year award recognizes a male and a female student-athlete whose athletic accomplishments best contributed to their sport, their institution's overall athletic program and to the conference during the past athletic year and is presented for the 25th time in 2024-25. Selection is made from campus nominees with the recipients chosen by vote of the conference sports information directors.
The ASC honored Jones and Hardin-Simmons football senior Charlie Patterson with co-Male Athlete of the Year accolades.
Jones was a consensus All-American for a second straight year in 2025, earning first team ABCA All-America and second team D3baseball.com All-America recognition. He was the ASC Player of the Year and collected a pair of All-Region honors from the ABCA and D3baseball.com.
One of the most accomplished baseball players in program history, Jones left his mark in a big way in 2025.
A graduate student from Keller, Texas, Jones hit .408 with a program-record 21 home runs with 60 RBIs, 54 runs scored, nine doubles, an .882 slugging percentage, and a 1.398 OPS in 40 games played. His homers and RBIs set program season records.
In his fifth year with the YellowJackets, Jones came into the season already holding the program's career home run record and finished with 62 homers -- setting an ASC record. Jones broke LeTourneau's career record for hits with 243 and also set records for career runs scored (180), RBIs (198), doubles (47), and slugging percentage (.713) during the year. Jones' career RBI total is also an ASC all-time record.
In ASC games alone in 2025, Jones hit .446 with 13 home runs and 34 RBIs in just 16 games played. Jones hit seven home runs in a four-game series at Hardin-Simmons that landed him ASC, D3baseball.com, and NCBWA weekly honors. Jones had 18 multi-hit games -- with a program-record 22-game hitting streak -- and 16 multi-RBI games.
Jones ranked in the top 10 nationally in homers (second) and slugging percentage (third).
Jones added ASC All-Tournament honors as he hit three home runs and drove in six during LeTourneau's run to the championship round.
His 75 career multi-hit games is a program record for the NCAA era and Jones' 51 career multi-RBI games also established a new program record. Jones' career total bases of 486 is over 200 more than the next closest player in the program's NCAA era. Jones had 43 career stolen bases, tied for third in the NCAA era, and his 99 career walks ranks second since 1999.
Jones was previously named the LeTourneau co-Male Athlete of the Year (joining Deonte Jackson). He is a two-time LeTourneau Male Athlete of the Year honoree.
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