UC SANTA BARBARA
2024
All-Big West Honorable Mention … CSC Academic All-District selection … Received the Golden Eagle Award as the player on the team with the highest cumulative GPA for the second consecutive season … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree ... Played 58 games for the Gauchos, making 48 starts between first and third base … Hit .275/.347/.420 with six doubles, two triples and six home runs on the season … Drove in 33 runs … Homered in each of the first three games of the season at Campbell (Feb. 16-18) … Had a four-RBI game against Hawai’i on Apr. 13, with a triple and a home run.
2023
CSC Academic All-District selection … Big West Academic All-Conference honoree … Received the Golden Eagle Award as the player on the team with the highest cumulative GPA … Started every game of the season at third base, one of two Gauchos to start all 55 games in 2023 … Led the team in hits (62), triples (3), walks (30), at-bats (215), sacrifice flies (5), and runs scored (45) … Also ranked in the top five for doubles (11, third), total bases (100, fourth), and stolen bases (8, fourth) … Posted a slash line of .285/.387/.463 with seven home runs … Tallied the second-most multi-hit games on the team, with 17 … Hit his first home run of the season on February 24 at Oregon, his third career home run at Oregon’s PK Park … Went 2-for-4 with three RBI in UC Santa Barbara’s Big West opener against CSU Bakersfield on March 17.
2022
Played in 25 games, finishing the season with a slash line of .241/.381/.455 … Hit his first career home run at Oregon on March 4, hitting his second in the same game … Went 2-for-3 as the lead-off man with a home run and two walks against UC Davis on March 25.
HIGH SCHOOL
Played shortstop at Palo Alto High School, earning a pair of All-League First Team selections … Helped the Vikings win league titles in both 2019 and 2021 … Was named Palo Alto High School Underclassman Athlete of the Year and later Senior Athlete of the Year … Named Baseball MVP … Also played water polo and basketball.
PERSONAL
Alexander “Zander” Darby was born November 26, 2002 in Palo Alto … Son of Elizabeth and Donald Darby … Has an older sister, Hannah … Majoring in Statistics and Data Science at UC Santa Barbara.
