University of California, Santa Barbara

UC SANTA BARBARA
2025
Pitched in 14 games for the Gauchos, starting 13 of them … Posted a 3.78 ERA, .253 batting average against and 71 strikeouts to 17 walks in 66 2/3 innings of work … Posted back-to-back seven-inning shutout outings at Long Beach State (March 29) and against UC Davis (April 5), striking out 19 batters across the two games … Finished the season with a total of five quality starts … Only allowed more than three earned runs in two of his 14 total outings … Struck out a career-best 11 hitters against UC Davis on April 5 … Also recorded eight strikeouts in his start at Long Beach State the week prior and at UC Riverside the week after … Struck out nine in 6 1/3 innings of one-run ball at Hawai’i on March 16.

2024
Made eight appearances for the Gauchos, all in relief … Earned his first career win in the season opener at Campbell (Feb. 16) … Made his first scoreless outing against UConn on March 10, firing a season-high two strikeouts … Also worked scoreless outings against UC Irvine on April 7, UCLA on April 16 and Saint Mary’s on May 14.

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HIGH SCHOOL
A three-year letterwinner at Oak Park River Forest High School … Earned All-West Suburban Conference honors each of his three varsity seasons … Recorded 170 strikeouts in his high school career … Pitched a two-hit, complete game shutout against conference rivals Hinsdale Central with eleven strikeouts in his junior season, which he says is his most memorable athletic achievement … Was on honor roll every semester … Also played basketball.

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PERSONAL
Son of Sara Aldrich and Mark Proskey … Has a younger brother, Matthew … Majoring in Communication at UC Santa Barbara … Roots for the Chicago Cubs and Bulls … Lists Walker Buehler and his Oak Park River Forest High School teammate, Ethan Moore, as his favorite athletes … Enjoys fishing in his free time … Listens to Jon Pardi, Zach Bryan, Morgan Wallen and A$AP Rocky … Watches Suits and The Office … Favorite movie is The Wolf of Wall Street.