Parker Brunelle Class: Junior Hometown: Snellville, GA High School: Wesleyan School Height / Weight: 6-3 / 210 Position: C B/T: S/R

2008: Made 35 appearances with five starts in his first season as a Seminole...posted a 5-0 record in starting assignments at the catcher position...registered a hit in his first collegiate at-bat on opening day, a game-ending two-run home run to right against Duquesne...finished the season batting .226 with seven hits in 31 at-bats...registered 13 RBI and 10 runs scored...collected 83 putouts and nine assists with just one error from behind the plate en route to posting a .989 fielding percentage...threw out a pair of runners on the year...posted a career-high two hits in the first of a four game series against Savannah State...followed two days later with a career-high three RBI in a win over the Tigers...started game three of the ACC Tournament against North Carolina playing all nine innings...registered a hit and two RBI in the win over the Tar Heels...made an all important tag out at the plate on the back half of an inning ending double play in the eighth...made four appearances in the NCAA Tournament including an inning of work against Stanford in the College World Series...recorded a run and an RBI in an elimination victory over Bucknell in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional...went 1-for-2 as a pinch hitter recording a pinch hit RBI single in the series finale against Georgia Tech.

HIGH SCHOOL: Excelled in both baseball and football at Wesleyan School in Norcross, Ga....a switch-hitting catcher, Brunelle is very sound and consistent from behind the plate...the Georgia native stood out in the East Cobb Perfect Game Tournament as he was part of the 16U and 18U BCS championship teams...as ranked as the 63rd best prospect as a position player by Perfect Game...member of the AAU Junior Olympics World Series championship team...made the Rawlings All-Southeast Region first team...a four-year honor roll and Dean's List student, while he was recognized as a scholar athlete all four years...was a School Ambassador and member of the Beta Club at Wesleyan School.

PERSONAL: Son of James and Jill Brunelle...father was a two-year letterwinner for the men's soccer team at Clemson...accepted into the FSU Honors Program...ACC Academic Honor Roll (2007-08)...Dean's List (Fall 2007)...member of the 3.0 GPA Club (Spring 2008) at Florida State...major is mechanical engineering...born on March 19, 1989.