CAREER NOTES: Owns a 5-3 record with a 6.39 earned-run average in two full seasons at Pepperdine ... Has pitched 63.1 innings through 43 relief appearances and has struck out 61 batters.

CAREER HIGHS: Strikeouts: 6, 3/5/09 vs. Evansville; Walks: 3 (4x), Last: 4/19/09 vs. Loyola Marymount; IP (start): None; IP (relief): 3.2, 3/5/09 vs. Evansville; Winning Streak: 4g, 3/8-6/2/08; Losing Streak: 2g, 3/21/09 - present. 

SPRING 2009: Posted a 1-2 record with a 7.30 earned-run average through 18 relief appearances and 24.2 innings pitched ... His 18 outings were second on the team to Nick Gaudi ... Struck out 29 batters and averaged 10.58 strikeouts per game ... Picked off one runner, Evansville's Cody Fick ... As a fielder, was credited with three assists and helped turn a double play ... Induced four double play ground balls, which was the team's second highest total (Scott Alexander, 9) and the most by any Waves' reliever ... Tagged out two runners at home plate following wild pitches (3/15 at Wichita State and 4/22 vs. Cal State Fullerton) ... Made season debut vs. Cal State Northridge (2/22), relieving Aaron Gates in the sixth inning with the game tied at 1-1 and runners on first and second base ... Struck out the two Matadors he faced to escape the inning ... Wiggled out of a second jam in the seventh inning by inducing a 3-2 double play ball as Ryan Heroy tagged first base before gunning down a Matador at home plate ... Picked up first win of season vs. Evansville (3/5) with 3.2 IP of quality relief, striking out a season and career high six batters ... Was the pitcher of record when Nate Johnson scored Denny Duron on a walkoff sacrifice fly in the ninth ... Pitched an inning of scoreless relief during Pepperdine's 16-6 win over then-No. 25 Cal Poly (3/10) ... Allowed two of the first three Saint Mary's batters (4/11) to reach base, but escaped the minor jam by getting Ryan Young to line out into a 3-6 double play ... Walked and struck out one Gael on 13 pitches, six strikes in what was a scoreless seventh inning of Pepperdine's 21-2 win ... Struck out four batters over the final 1.2 innings of a 10-5 loss at Long Beach State (5/5) ... All four punch outs came with a pair of runners in scoring position in both the seventh and eighth innings ... Pitched two innings at then-No. 18 Cal Poly (5/12) ... Entered game to start the seventh with a 5-2 lead, but gave up a two-out, two-run double that cut the lead to 5-4, but then stranded the tying run at second base in both frames via fly out and strikeout ... Made final appearance of the season at then-No. 4 Cal State Fullerton (5/19) in the top of the seventh and pitched a scoreless inning on 11 pitches/5 strikes ... Allowed the first two Titans to reach base on a hit by pitch and single before getting Joe Scott to ground into a double play.   

FALL 2008: Did not compete.

SUMMER 2008: Ranked by Baseball America as the Central Illinois Collegiate League's #1 prospect ... Made 14 appearances out of the bullpen for the Danville Dans and was 4-1 with a 2.84 earned-run average ... Struck out 17 in 19 innings and limited opposing batters to a .179 average ... Earned the save in the CICL/KIT League All-Star Game by getting the final batter to ground out with the tying and go-ahead runs on third and second. 

SPRING 2008: As a freshman, was second on the club in 2008 with 25 appearances (all out of the bullpen), four behind leader Nick Gaudi with 29 ... Finished the year with a 4-1 record and one save ... Tossed 38.2 innings, struck out 32 batters while limiting them to a team-best (fifth in the WCC) .236 average ... Allowed only 19 hits to right-handed batters through 94 at bats, equaling a .202 average ... In conference play, posted a 3.68 ERA and struck out an average of six batters per nine innings through nine appearances and 14.2 innings pitched ... WCC hitters only batted .200 against him with only 10 hits in 50 at bats, and only one leadoff batter out of 11 (.091) reached base against him ... Attained his first collegiate win in a 7-3 victory over Columbia (3/8), giving up just one hit and a walk in 1.2 innings ... Compiled 3.1 consecutive innings of scoreless relief from March 21 to April 2, in which he no-hit Oregon State (3/21), Gonzaga (3/31) and UC Santa Barbara (4/2) on two strikeouts ... Posted a second three-game (5.1 innings) scoreless streak from April 30 to May 4, in which he pitched against UCSB (4/30) and twice against San Diego (5/2 and 4) ... Earned his second win of the year with 1.1 effective innings against the Gauchos ... In his first appearance against the Toreros, allowed just one hit over three innings and stuck out a career game high four batters ... Struck out two USD batters in his follow up game ... His longest outing of the season was 3.1 innings of relief in a 5-4 win over UCSB (5/7), in which he allowed just one hit ... In two games at Santa Clara (5/16 and 18), pitched a total of 5.1 innings, stuck out two batters and made his first career save ... In nailing down the save, pitched 2.2 innings of one-hit ball, striking out two ... Came into that game with the bases loaded in the seventh and got the first batter to fly out to right (scoring a run) before striking out the Broncos’ third baseman ... In his first NCAA game, pitched 1.1 innings of no-hit ball in Pepperdine’s 4-3 win over Arkansas (3/30) ... Won his fourth game of the year the following night in the Waves’ 7-4 win against UC Davis (3/31), striking out two batters in two innings. 

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from De La Salle High School, located in Concord, Calif., in 2007 ... A three-year letterman ... Named a two-time all-league selection and was an All-East Bay first team pick his junior year ... Selected as a Rawlings Preseason All-American prior to senior season ... Won two CIF North Coast Section championships ... Played in the AFLAC All-American Game ... Played summer ball with the E.J. Sports Warriors and the Oakland Oaks ... Competed on the powerhouse De La Salle football team and lettered for three seasons, including all-state first team honors ... A four-year scholar-athlete.

PERSONAL: Born in Berkeley, Calif. ... Son of Rick and Jeanie Hess and Mike Park ... Has four siblings: Jason, Kyle, Mac and Maddi ... A grandmother also attended Pepperdine ... Grandfather, Clint Smith, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates ... Chose Pepperdine because “it’s a Christian school that’s small and thrives in baseball and academics.”

FAVORITES: Hobbies include playing football, wakeboarding and surfing ... Favorite pro baseball player is Nick Swisher ... Favorite pro baseball team is the San Francisco Giants ... Favorite book is Coach Wooden ... Favorite movies are Boondock Saints and 300 ... Favorite TV show is SportsCenter ... Favorite musical artist is Lil Wayne ... Favorite thing about baseball is “competing.”