UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
Second Team All-Big West … All-Santa Barbara Regional Team ... Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played in 57 of the Gauchos’ 58 games, making 50 starts … Hit .350/.429/.560 on the season, with 12 doubles, 10 home runs and 42 RBIs … Robbed two home runs in left field: a potential go-ahead grand slam against UC San Diego (May 4) and a potential two-run homer in the Santa Barbara Regional Final against Oregon (June 2) … Had the first multi-homer game of his career in his postseason debut against Fresno State (May 31) … Hit his first career home run on Feb. 27 at Pepperdine … Finished the season with 20 multi-hit games, tied with Aaron Parker for the team lead … Recorded a hit in 23 straight games from April 20 to June 1, the longest hitting streak on the team … Drove in a career-high five runs against Cal State Fullerton on April 26, one of eight multi-RBI games for him on the season.
2023
Appeared in 14 games for the Gauchos, making two starts … Deployed largely as a pinch runner and defensive replacement, he scored three runs on the season with just eight at-bats.
2022
Played in 26 games, appearing largely as a pinch-runner and defensive replacement … In nine total at-bats, he hit .444/.583/.556 with an RBI and two stolen bases, scoring nine runs … Recorded his first career hit with an RBI double against USC (April 26).
HIGH SCHOOL
A four-year letter winner at Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle, playing as a catcher under Head Coach Ernest Policarpio … Selected to the All-Metro League First Team his sophomore and senior years … Earned All-Metro League Honorable Mention as a freshman … Posted a slash line of .349/.541/.558 his senior year … Also played football and ultimate frisbee for the Seahawks, earning four varsity letters for football and two for frisbee … Won the YCC Ultimate Frisbee National Championship with U17 team Seattle Oblivion in 2019.
PERSONAL
Jessada “Jesse” Brown was born February 6, 2003 in Seattle … Son of Perry and Suwan Brown … Has an older brother, Jack, and a younger sister, Jennie … Majoring in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara.
