UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
First Team All-Big West … All-Santa Barbara Regional Team … Named Big West Player of the Week on May 27 … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played in 48 games for the Gauchos, starting all of them … Led the team in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging, hitting .379/.460/.632 with 12 doubles, 12 home runs and a team-high 51 RBIs … Maintained a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage behind the plate, catching 12 of 26 would-be base stealers on the season … Ranked among the top five Big West hitters in batting average, slugging, OPS, RBI, home runs and runners caught stealing … Also worked a team-high 27 walks … Finished with 20 multi-hit games, including a pair of five-hit outings to lead the team in both categories … Opened the season with a five-RBI game at Campbell (Feb. 26), missed 10 games due to injury, then recorded another five-RBI day in his return against UConn (March 8) … Tallied his third five-RBI performance of the year against Cal State Bakersfield on May 11 … Over a four-game stretch from May 23 to May 31, he went 11-for-12 at the plate with five walks, hitting four doubles and two home runs in that span.
2023
All-Big West Honorable Mention … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree … Appeared in 50 games for the Gauchos, starting 49 of them at catcher … Led the team in on-base percentage (.415) … Ranked ninth in The Big West for slugging percentage (.551) and tenth for on-base plus slugging (.966) … Also ranked in the top five among UC Santa Barbara hitters for batting average (.321, second), slugging (.551, third), runs scored (33, fifth), hits (60, second), RBI (32, fourth), doubles (11, third), home runs (10, fifth), total bases (103, second), walks (25, fourth), and sacrifice bunts (2, second) … Led the team with 20 multi-hit games on the season … Caught 11 runners stealing and posted a .989 fielding percentage behind the plate … Was one of four Gauchos to have multiple multi-home run games on the season, going yard twice against Oregon (February 25) and twice against UC San Diego (April 23) … His first home run against Oregon was the first long ball of his career.
2022
Played in 10 games for the Gauchos, finishing with a slash line of .375/.375/.625 … Hit his first career extra-base hit, a triple, against UC Irvine on May 6, recording his first career RBI on the play and putting UC Santa Barbara up by two.
HIGH SCHOOL
Earned a pair of varsity letters at Los Altos High School … Finished with a career on-base percentage of .449 and a .350 batting average … Hit two home runs and collected 10 RBI in one game, which he lists as his best performance for coach Gabriel Stewart … Earned First Team All-League and All-NorCal honors … Helped his team win the 2018 CCS Title as a freshman in 2018 … Made three trips to the postseason over his career … Also played football, being named offensive MVP in 2019.
PERSONAL
Aaron Clay Parker was born January 17, 2003 in Los Altos … Son of Liz Pidto and John Parker … Has an older brother, Ben, an outfielder at William & Mary … Majoring in Economics and Accounting at UC Santa Barbara … Lives and plays baseball with Type 1 diabetes.
