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Ryan Parker

Ryan Parker was hired as an assistant coach with the Union College baseball team in 2025 and will begin his first season in the dugout with the Garnet Chargers in 2026, serving as the team’s pitching coach and assisting with recruiting.

Parker joined Union following two seasons on staff at Russell Sage College, where he helped guide the Gators to a 2024 Empire 8 regular-season title. His previous collegiate coaching stops include serving as associate head coach and pitching coach at Worcester State University (2016), head coach at Fitchburg State University (2015), and eight seasons as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Wheaton College (Mass.).

During his coaching tenure at Wheaton, Parker helped the Lyons to over 400 victories, 10 NEWMAC championships, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances, three NCAA Division III championship trips, and two national runner-up finishes.

Over his career, Parker has coached 23 all-conference pitchers, six conference pitchers of the year, and multiple Major League Baseball signees. He is a two-time Wheaton Athletics Hall of Fame inductee as a member of the 2006 and 2012 baseball teams.

A member of Wheaton’s first varsity baseball team in 1998, Parker helped the Lyons capture three NEWMAC titles and two NCAA regional appearances. He was the winning pitcher in the program’s 1999 conference championship game and earned the first save in program history in 1998.

Parker is also the cofounder and head coach of the Troy Baseball Expo, a nonprofit organization in Troy, N.Y., that provides free baseball instruction, academic advising, and workforce development to youth in New York’s Capital District.

Parker earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wheaton College in 2001 and a master’s degree in higher education counseling from Bridgewater State University (Mass.) in 2008.